President Barack Obama’s inauguration generated massive Web traffic last Tuesday, fueled by unprecedented amounts of live video streaming and a flood of postings on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.The Internet didn’t collapse under the strain, but many media and government Web sites experienced performance slowdowns, according to Internet monitoring firms Keynote Systems Inc. and Gomez Inc.
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Inauguration buckles, but doesn’t break, the Internet
President Barack Obama’s inauguration generated massive Web traffic last Tuesday, fueled by unprecedented amounts of live video streaming and a flood of postings on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.