The Michael Jackson memorial was bigger than President Barack Obama' s inauguration -- at least measured by video streams on msnbc.com.
The Redmond online news site recorded nearly 19 million video streams yesterday, a new record. Meanwhile, msnbc.com said that its Twitter widget -- which allowed viewers to post messages in real time and have them appear alongside the live video stream -- recorded more than 75,000 Michael Jackson-related Tweets.
As of 2 p.m. yesterday, the site had recorded more than 82 million page views and seven million unique visitors,
The Web held up pretty well during the memorial service, but Keynote Systems reported that it was taking about 20 percent longer than normal for news sites to load pages, according to VentureBeat.
Meanwhile, TechCrunch reports on the numbers at CNN, which at one point yesterday saw 781,000 concurrent video streams.
John Cook is co-founder of TechFlash. Follow him on Twitter @johnhcook.
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