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January 22, 2009
The Whitehouse has Changed
From my last post you can see that I basically pulled an all nighter to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. I wanted to watch this historic event live as over the years I like many have been asked, "Where were you when JFK was shot?" or "Where were you when man landed on the moon?" and the response is always "I'm not that old, all before my time.". Now in the years to come I will have an answer when asked “Where were you when Barack Obama became POTUS?”.
The above was my primary motivation and my second was to interact with people around the globe as the day evolved and it more than lived up to my expectations. My words will never convey how much I feel on this historic occasion and I shall leave that for the wordsmiths of this world. I wasn’t there but I could not have been any closer without flying to Washington DC.
Throughout the night & early morning watching Twitter, Flickr, TV and Internet the amount of emotion, joy & happiness was endless.
Flickr has ~8,500 photo’s in the Inauguration 2009 group pool and ~5,000 public photo’s tagged with #inaug09.
- Shel Israel - Nice to see so many languages being posted at #inaug09
- HuffingtonPost.com - At one minute after Noon, the Obama version of http://www.whitehouse.gov/ will go live.
- Creative Commons - Whitehouse.gov mandates 3rd-party content under CC-BY: http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/
The Whitehouse Blog - Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov
A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and his new administration officially came to life. One of the first changes is the White House's new website, which will serve as a place for the President and his administration to connect with the rest of the nation and the world.
Tim O'Reilly - Inauguration Moments and Links
I loved the promise on the new whitehouse.gov to "publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.
We saw 5x normal tweets-per-second and about 4x tweets-per-minute as this chart illustrates. Overall, Twitter sailed smoothly through the inauguration but at the peak, some folks did experience a 2-5 minute delay receiving updates.
CNN Live & Facebook (Techcrunch)
Update 2: As of 10:15 AM PST/1:15 EST today, Facebook reports:
-600,000 status updates have been posted so far through the CNN.com Live Facebook feed
-There were an average of 4,000 status updates every minute during the broadcast
-There were 8,500 status updates the minute Obama began his speech
-Obama’s page on Facebook has more than 4 million fans and more than 500,000 wall posts
-Millions of people logged into Facebook during the broadcast
And CNN served more than 18.8 million live streams between 6 AM and 1 PM EST, with a peak of 1.3 million streams just before Obama began his speech.
Update 3: Make that 21.3 million streams on CNN.com as of 3:30 PM EST and 136 million pageviews.
Posted by Stephen at January 22, 2009 12:51 AM
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