Compared with a typical Tuesday, multimedia services saw huge jumps in traffic on Election Day.
Yahoo.com
165%: Jump in traffic to Yahoo News
80%: Increase in total traffic
Facebook.com
20%: Jump in traffic
5.44 million: People who clicked the "I voted" button on Facebook to tell their friends they voted.
2 million: Election-related "virtual gifts" given
CNN.com
30 million: Unique visitors, highest in site history, 282 million page views.
5.3 million: Live streams, triple the previous record, and 6.8 million on-demand video streams.
Verizon Wireless
2.5 million: More voice minutes in Tampa Bay area
22.5%: More text messages in Tampa Bay area
9%: Jump in data connections, such as sending photos via phone.
Total Text Messages Between Carriers
18.7%: Increase, according to cellular company Syniverse, peaking at 11 p.m. when TV networks called election for Obama. Normally, texting traffic falls
30 percent at 11 p.m.
Mood
250%: Increase in occurrences of the word "hopeful" in personal blogs tracked by the Intelligent Systems Lab at the University of Amsterdam. The word "scared" was relatively unchanged. To see other words, see moodviews.com/Moodgrapher.
News Site Traffic
8.6 million: Total visitors per minute on news coverage sites (tracked by Akamai Technologies). For more, see www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/news/index.html.
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