Casey Anthony Not Guilty Verdict Rocks the Web with Huge Traffic Surges
Whether you agree with the Casey Anthony verdict or disagree fully, there’s one thing that’s nearly certain, you probably took to the internet for more information over the last 24 hours and that increase in internet traffic has caused a flood of reactions from users on various news and gossip websites.
Akami’s Net Usage Index for News found that traffic surged from an average of 2 million page views per minute to 3.3 million page views per minute on most news sites after the not guilty verdict was announced.
One of the biggest gains came from CNN who between 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday saw one million users watching their live feed, that number is 30 times higher than last months average for the news sites live feed.
It’s also being reported that CNN witnessed 12 million page views for their video stream over the entire period of the stream, making it the tenth most-popular streaming feed of all time for the organization.
Also witnessing huge traffic spikes was Twitter where MSNBC says there were 325,283 posts on Twitter related to the Casey Anthony trial on Tuesday alone, while the trending topics for the social network included #caseyanthonyverdict and #notguilty among others.
At the same time AllAboutFacebook couldn’t register all Facebook chatter surrounding the case which means more than 10 mentions of the Casey Anthony not guilty verdict were being posted every second.
