Media News - Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Internet into overdrive as millions express Obama hopes
The first US Internet president is an online sensation, triggering a
tidal wave of Web traffic as he officially seized the nation's reins.
Millions around the world commented, Twittered, posted and prayed as
they watched Barack Obama's inauguration live on the Internet, pinning
their hopes on a new world order and era in American politics. Akamai
Technologies, which specializes in assuring that websites don't crash
under the weight of heavy online traffic, saw digital content streaming
surge to record levels - more than two terabytes of data per second.
Akamai said its EdgePlatform was streaming more than seven million video
feeds, most of them live, at points during Obama's acceptance speech.
During the inauguration, the number of Haiku-style updates fired off by
users of Twitter leapt fivefold, the micro-blogging service said. Hot
social-networking website Facebook said the rate of profile page updates
surged, peaking at an unprecedented 8,500 per minute during Obama's
speech. Facebook and CNN had teamed together to let viewers post
comments or other updates to their social network pages while watching
the news organization's online broadcast of the inauguration. (AFP)
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