Steve Jobs' blockbuster death

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SYDNEY: The death of Apple founder Steve Jobs provoked an online outpouring of grief likely to smash records, [says] an Australian firm as mourners took to the Internet to pay tribute to the tech guru.

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Social media analysts said it was likely to break records for the most talked-about Internet event of all time, with monitoring agency SR7 estimating it had hit a massive 10,000 tweets per second and was likely to rise.

— "Steve Jobs' death to smash Internet records"

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