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Highest tweets ever — Bin Laden’s death shakes up the internet
The news of Osama Bin Laden’s death has, not surprisingly, caused a major spike in internet traffic. The news of a successful mission to eliminate the most wanted man in the world sent users flooding the web for information and confirmation.
Akamai’s Net Usage Index, a company which measures traffic for news sites that Akamai delivers content, recorded 4.1 million page views around 11:30pm (US Time) Sunday, when President Obama began his speech.
Around the same time Twitter announced via a tweet that, “Last night saw the highest sustained rate of tweets ever. From 10:45 – 2:20am ET, there was an average of 3 000 tweets per second.” 3 000 tweets per second equates to just about 27.9-million tweets in just two hours and 35 minutes.
The microblogging site goes on to state that at its peak, between 10:45pm and 12:30am, Bin Laden’s demise averaged 3 440 tweets per second. Delivering an average of 12.3-million tweets per hour.
Twitter released a graph showing activity as the news unfolded.
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Akamai only measuring news sites shows traffic to have peaked at just over four million page views less than that of last week’s Royal Wedding which peaked at 5.3-million. The online activity around Bin Laden’s death did however cripple CNN’s mobile site.
Here is a graphical representation of the spike
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