Michael Jackson's death last night flooded the Internet. News came first via gossip website TMZ and then spread unusprisingly to twitter. At 11.30pm last night least 30% of Tweets involved the topic of Michael Jackson.

During this time the TMZ website crashed from the surge of users, as did celebrity gossip site PerezHilton.com and twitter was frequently over capacity, struggling to fully load profile style sheets.

Social media trumped traditional print media with many early editions of newspapers missing the headline, such as the Independent, The Guardian, the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and Metro.

A topical satirical message came across the internet airwaves, relating to the recent Habitat Marketing embarassment.

"Very sad about Michael Jackson. HABITAT - for all your furniture needs - habitat.co.uk."

A more interesting idea came from twitterer @robmanuel who said: "If I claimed there was a mass moonwalk being organised for 6pm at Liverpool Street Station would anyone believe me?"

The idea of a moonwalking flashmob is remeniscent of a similar stunt held by T-mobile earlier this year which saw actors and some eager passers-by dance around the station to music from the announcement speakers.

Using the twitter search, it's possible the see how many re-tweets (how many users have passed this on) there have been. In half an hour there's been 60 re-tweets and growing. Will we see mass moonwalking at Liverpool Street at 6pm today? Might have to head down with some shiny shoes and find out.