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In the time window from 12AM to 4PM EST, Web analytics company Omniture reports that CNN saw:

• 72 million page views
• 10.8 million unique visitors
• 8.9 million live video streams

CDN server logs also indicate that CNN saw a peak of 781,000 concurrent live streams at its peak.

We’ve also gotten some numbers from Ustream:

• 4.6 million total streams
• 1.6 million total unique visitors
• 12,000 messages per minute sent through chat/Ustream’s Social Stream

Update: Facebook has sent us their finalized stats, taken from all partner sites that integrated its stream of real-time updates. In total, the social network reports that 1 million users posted approximately 800,000 status:
CNN:

• 733,000 status updates
• 759,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast
• 6,000 updates/minute at the peak

E! Online:

• 9,000 status updates
• 87,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

ABC:

• 48,000 status updates
• 97,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

MTV:

• 5,000 status updates

21,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

More: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/the-world-was-watching-michael-jacksons-memorial-by-the-numbers/