There's a time and a place for Tweeting: At home, on a bus, in an impossibly long three-hour Anthropology...It's a pretty long list. You know what a bad place to Tweet is? Michael Jackson's funeral. Sadly, Al Sharpton apparently didn't get the memo, as he spent literally the entire time posting little 14-character messages on Twitter.

Doing his best to ensure that the friends and family-only service of the King of Pop was, in the end, not such a private moment after all, Sharpton tweeted his way through last night's long-awaited, star-studded and camera-prohibited interment of Jackson.

"I am sitting at the burial services of michael jackson," the man of the cloth announced on his Twitter page. "I am talking to actress lisaraye mc coy…and tom mesereau.

"Tom represented MJ in the molestation case. We are all discussing his battles. This is a real moment for those who witnessed what he"—dang, character limits strike again. (Source)

Hey, that's totally logical. What better way to honour the recently deceased than by making sure that everyone you know can vicariously experience a ceremony the family requested by private? Hey, while you're at it, why not do what Joe Jackson did and plug your record company or some shit like that? Cuh-lassay.