Twitter overloaded with claims of Michael Jackson's Death

Just minutes after Michael Jackson, the king of Pop, was announced to be rushed to the hospital after a serious heart attack, Tweets with the term "Michael Jackson" flooded the popular social network. Within half an hour, these messages comprised 22% of all the traffic on Twitter, the highest peak most of us have seen for any given trend. Obviously, the huge and sudden load increase has crippled the Twitter servers, since the "Try again later" message is being frequently displayed at the Twitter homepage.

I'm pretty sure some Tweeting record is about to be broken.

Update: The Michael Jackson trend peaked at 22.61%, 3 hours after it started. This makes the "Breaking News!" banner in the TV, 9 hours later, seem completely pointless and stale.