It’s Kill Feature Time Again At Twitter To Stay Afloat

Twitter has a history of killing off features in order to stay up. And
it looks like it had to do that again today, in the wake the avalanche
of tweets that are flowing in following Michael Jackson's death. Gone
are Search and Trending Topics from logged-in Twitter account main
pages.

It's probably not that tweets that are so bad for Twitter right now,
it's the searching for tweets to get information about not just
Michael Jackson's passing, but also Farah Fawcett's and Ed McMahon's.
Plus there's a whole trend of celebrity deaths being erroneously
reported that probably isn't helping Twitter too much either.