Michael Jackson Video Becomes First Ever To Premiere on Twitter

'A Place With No Name' features archive footage

Published 14th Aug 2014

A Michael Jackson video has become the first ever video to premiere on Twitter.

In the early hours of this morning the ā€˜A Place With No Nameā€™ promo was shared on the official @michaeljackson page and was retweeted tens of thousands of times.

At the same time as the post on the micro-blogging site, the video was shown on huge screens in New Yorkā€™s Times Square.

Directed by the acclaimed Samuel Bayer - whoā€™s previously created videos for the likes of David Bowie, Justin Timberlake and Nirvana - the atmospheric video opens with waves crashing on a beach before moving to a desert with scenes of Michael Jackson dancing.

The MJ footage was lifted from outtakes from the In The Closet video shoot way back in 1992.

Available to download now, ā€˜A Place With No Nameā€™ is the second single to be lifted from Michaelā€™s chart-topping posthumous album ā€˜Xscape.ā€™

This June marked the fifth anniversary of Michael Jacksonā€™s untimely death from acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication after a suffering cardiac arrest.