Web too busy for business during Obama inauguration?
Tue, Jan 20th, 2009
People flooded to the Internet this morning to watch President Barack Obama get inaugurated. Social networking site Facebook saw 4,000 status updates per minute during the inauguration, while Twitter users made five times the normal amount of "tweets" per second. GigaOm wondered if the web was breaking under the inaugural strain, and reported on the high traffic seen by content delivery networks Limelight and Akamai. Despite all of that, some websites sat forlorn and unused during the speech.
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