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The Michael Jackson Memorial: By the Numbers

marielaelaela:notthatkindagay:

Tickets distributed via Internet lottery: 11,000 (Staples Center), 6,500 (Nokia Theater)
Requests for tickets: 1.6 million
Odds of winning ticket: roughly 1 in 183 

Price of tickets for memorial: free
Highest price for ticket quoted on eBay: $20,000 
Price of domain name officialmichaeljacksonmemorial.com: $9 million

Michael Jackson Facebook fan pages: 548 
Reported number of Facebook friends: 6.4 million (vs. 80,000 before his death)
Number of times his friend Elizabeth Taylor Tweeted about Jackson memorial: 8

Estimated length of ceremony: 90 min
Number of Grammy awards by performers at ceremony: 40
Number of Grammys won by Michael Jackson in his lifetime: 13

Number of police officers to be staffed around Staples Center: estimated at 3,200 
Cost to the city of Los Angeles: estimated at $3.5 million

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Having Twitter go over capacity, leaving Iranians to think, “WTF?”:  Priceless

Staples should donate some of the proceedings from all that free publicity to the city of L.A.  Since Jackson’s family probably won’t.

Via *playing on repeat

  1. justkevin reblogged this from notthatkindagay and added:
    Selling out hours of media attention that could have otherwise been focused on more worthwhile causes: Priceless
  2. itsmorgan reblogged this from inothernews and added:
    winning ticket: roughly 1 in 183 Price of tickets for memorial:...Highest price for ticket...
  3. eatingcake reblogged this from notthatkindagay
  4. inothernews reblogged this from marielaelaela and added:
    notthatkindagay:...Staples should donate some of the proceedings from all that free...
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