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Saturday, July 04, 2009
Jackson’s Death Caused Spike in Web Traffic - Brian Stelter, New York Times
Did your Internet connection seem slow Thursday afternoon? It likely wasn’t your computer, it was the surge of interest in Michael Jackson’s hospitalization and death. Akamai said that traffic to news Web sites spiked around 6 p.m. Eastern, clocking in at one point at 4.2 million visitors per minute. During the rest of the day, the sites tracked by Akamai never exceeded 3 million visitors per minute.
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