by Corinne
23. January 2009 15:37
Barack Obama's inauguration led to a surge in online traffic and a record number of video streams across several leading US news websites.
Web traffic metrics firm Akamai said that live coverage and streaming of Obama's inauguration as president created the fifth highest peak across news websites since it started recording data in August 2005.
The peak inweb traffic for the event, according to Akamai, came at 11.45am EST – 4.45pm in the UK – on Tuesday as 5,401,250 web users hungry for news of the inauguration logged on to news sites within a minute of each other.
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