The Michael Jackson Memorial Concert has broken web traffic records and redefined the way people interact online. The BBC reports that global web traffic was as high as 33% above normal during the event at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.
“Akamai, which delivers more than 20% of the world’s internet traffic, said it was the second-largest day on its network. The company reported nearly four million visitors per minute as of 10am pacific time, around the time the ceremony started at the Staples Centre.
The biggest day was on 25 June when news of Michael Jackson’s death first hit the web. Over 4.2 million global visitors per minute visited news sites that day.
At Facebook, the world’s biggest social networking site, a total of about one million users posted around 800,000 status updates related to online broadcasts hosted by CNN, E! Online, ABC and MTV.
Ustream said the memorial was the “largest ever” event hosted by the site. It served 4.6 million video streams from around the world in partnership with CBS. Viewers taking part in the chat rooms left over 12,000 messages per minute.
Yahoo said the ceremony was the single most streamed in its history with 5 million total streams.”
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