London 5/2/2011 10:29:55 PM
News / Internet

Royal Wedding dominates internet and sets a YouTube record

The Royal wedding has dominated the news and the internet for days and it will most likely be a trendy topic for the next few days. The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton has captured the imagination of people around the world.

The wedding was streamed live on the internet as well as being televised for millions of viewers. YouTube streamed the wedding and it became has become the number one viewed news story for the site. The previous record was held by the 2009 Presidential Inauguration of Barak Obama.

Twitter has also had massive traffic and recorded up to 300 tweets per second while Will and Kate took their vows. Facebook also stated that 74 status update per second mentioned the Royal Wedding.

The onslaught of people trying to view the wedding on the BBC via the internet crippled their website but Google experienced no troubles.

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