‘Royal Wedding’ sixth biggest online event in history
April 30th, 2011 - 1:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 29 (ANI): Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding has become the sixth biggest online event in history, as millions watched the grand event on television and internet.
Statistics have revealed that global internet traffic was at its peak at around 1.30pm with 5.3 million page views per minute. People thronged ‘Facebook’ which reported 74 updates a second.
During the ceremony, there were 268,777 mentions of the wedding on Facebook in UK alone. The event at its peak was mentioned 67 times a second on Twitter.
Almost 10,600 allusions to Middleton’s dress were recorded among UK users during the ceremony, with 4,583 comments on Sir Elton John singing along.
“By the time the newlyweds emerged for the procession to Buckingham Palace, the number of mentions by users around the country had hit 1,199,196″, the Daily Mail quoted Facebook as saying. (ANI)
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