Michael Jackson Video Becomes First Ever To Premiere on Twitter

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

In the early hours of this morning the ‘A Place With No Name’ 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 York’s Times Square.

Directed by the acclaimed Samuel Bayer - who’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, ‘A Place With No Name’ is the second single to be lifted from Michael’s chart-topping posthumous album ‘Xscape.’

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