Election Day saw a massive jolt in the pace of page views and traffic on many a service. A lot of services saw their own records tumble, in fact almost every other service did. Here lets discuss a few of them: Twitter saw a good change from the first presidential debate, as it saw 2-3 more times higher traffic. Using a quote from this blog to explain what Twitter actually does, as if you guys don’t already know:
"People turn to Twitter during shared, real-time events—these debates and this election was so massively shared that Twitter benefited from huge increases in both activity and exposure."
While another sharing info service: Digg saw its highest traffic in a day, ever. The ‘Digg this if you voted for Obama’ button saw more than 33,000 clicks, making it the most ‘Dugg’ post in an year, and second most Dugg post ever.
YouTube’s Video Your Vote saw 1,500 video uploads. As one of the spokesperson states:
"The CNN/YouTube Democratic Debate was open for submissions for two months and we received 3,000 questions. The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate was open for five months and we received 5,000 questions. Video Your Vote was open for submissions for a week and we received, in a period of one day, around 1,200 submissions."
Last but not least we have the Los Angeles Times website, which went past its previous (last years’) all-time best with 8.36 million page views.
