TMZ.com got the scoop about Jackson being sent to the hospital. But the site went down from the surge of traffic. The LA Times reported he was in a coma, but then that site went down too. The LA Times managed to report that Jackson was dead, and then everyone else started buzzing about it. Twitter went down.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-is-a-test-he-is-only-a-test-of-the-emergency-broadcast-system/