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Michael Jackson's Memorial Overloads The Internet.
I4U News —
... at a ceremony that was more widely viewed than the memorial services of any real king who has ever lived. Gigaom reports that Akamai delivered over 2,185,000 live/on-demand streams today, and that total traffic on their network exceeded 2 terabites per second during the service itself. At the peak today, news sites received close to four million viewers per minute, and an average of 3.3 million visitors per minute over the course of the day. It's clear now that both Michael's death, and his memorial, have been among the most significant events in the history of the Internet ...
Linkpost | 7.8.2009
TechBlog —
... • King of Pop Proves to be King of Traffic: MJ's Online Memorial Pushes Internet's Limits - Even if you weren't watching it, millions of others were, and it strained the tubes. • ...
Jackson's Funeral a Big Day for Internet Traffic
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... If you watched Michael Jackson's memorial live online, you were far from alone in doing so. According to Akamai, more than 2,185,000 live and on-demand streams in both Flash and Windows Media formats recorded 3,924,370 visitors per minute as of 1PM EST, and more than 3.3 million visitors per minute overall. ...
Obama Edges Jackson in Net’s Most Watched Sweepstakes
Technologizer —
... That’s not to say the King of Pop’s service didn’t flood the Interwebs. Akamai said it surpassed 2 terabits per second during the memorial service, according to GigaOM. Also, there were over 3.9 million visitors per second at the height of the service at 1pm EST, second to the 4.24 million/second visitors that hit news sites on June 25, the day Jackson’s death shocked the world. ...
Will Trendistic Trump Trendrr for Tracking Twitter Trends? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... As we saw with the death of Michael Jackson and the Iranian election protests, statistics on tweets help to reveal how information spreads across the web. For many, Trendrr has emerged as the digital tracking service of choice, lauded for its both its ability to procure stats and charts on Twitter trends and for its easy-to-use user interface. But while some may find Trendrr’s UI intuitive, compared with a lesser-known rival, Buenos Aires-based Trendistic, I’ve found it hard ...
Remembering 9/11 — A Time Before Social Networks [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... past year, we’ve seen time and again how powerful Twitter can be when it comes to disseminating breaking news; examples include the TwitPic picture of the U.S. Airways plane in the Hudson River and when Iranians tweeted about the violent clashes between the government and protesters following that country’s election. But we’ve also seen how major news events, most notably the death of Michael Jackson in June, can significantly slow down and disrupt the web.
We’ve also seen how social networks ...
