The inauguration has prompted more than one million status updates on Facebook, the social networking site revealed Tuesday. Meanwhile, other social-networking sites and tools also reported surges.
Facebook averaged over 4,000 status updates per hour Tuesday morning--a number that peaked at 8,500 updates every minute while President Barack Obama was giving his inaugural speech.
“We've never reached levels like this before," a Facebook spokesman told CNN.com. “Even just yesterday, we had more users online than we've ever had before, more new users than we've ever had before."
Facebook partnered with CNN to allow members watching inaugural festivities via CNN.com to sign in and update their statuses alongside the streaming video provided by the cable news channel.
Facebook averaged over 4,000 status updates per hour Tuesday morning--a number that peaked at 8,500 updates every minute while President Barack Obama was giving his inaugural speech.
“We've never reached levels like this before," a Facebook spokesman told CNN.com. “Even just yesterday, we had more users online than we've ever had before, more new users than we've ever had before."
Facebook partnered with CNN to allow members watching inaugural festivities via CNN.com to sign in and update their statuses alongside the streaming video provided by the cable news channel.
