Wow its nice to see. The first US Internet president is an online sensation, triggering a tidal wave of Web traffic as he officially seized the nation's reins.
Millions around the world commented, Twittered, posted and prayed as they watched Barack Obama's inauguration live on the Internet, pinning their hopes on a new world order and era in American politics.
Akamai Technologies, which specializes in assuring that websites don't crash under the weight of heavy online traffic, saw digital content streaming surge to record levels -- more than two terabytes of data per second.
Akamai said its EdgePlatform was streaming more than seven million video feeds, most of them live, at points during Obama's acceptance speech.
During the inauguration, the number of Haiku-style updates fired off by users of Twitter leapt fivefold, the micro-blogging service said.
Hot social-networking website Facebook said the rate of profile page updates surged, peaking at an unprecedented 8,500 per minute during Obama's speech.
Facebook and CNN had teamed together to let viewers post comments or other updates to their social network pages while watching the news organization's online broadcast of the inauguration.
One US blogger said the National Mall, where the ceremony was held, was once a slave market and that the White House was built by black slaves.
Others feted the entry of the first black man in the White House.
The frenzy was not without dangers.
Hackers were using dozens of fake websites linked to Obama's inauguration to spread a virus on the Internet, Panda Security warned.
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