Now On YouTube: The Obama Inaugural Everyone Just Saw, Over and Over Again - AllThingsD

YouTube may have been the only big Web site that didn’t provide a live stream of Barack Obama’s inauguration. But its users are rectifying this as we speak: They’re currently uploading clips of the ceremony to the site at a staggering pace of 3.52 videos per minute, according to video tracking service TubeMogul.

To put that in context, TubeMogul normally tracks uploads by the hour: Last fall, when the "Saturday Night Live" Sarah Palin skits were the hottest thing on the Web, users were sending clips to the site at a rate of 9.5 per hour, says marketing director David Burch.

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