How many people watched the Michael Jackson memorial on cnn com live?
Millions of people around the world watched coverage of Jackson’s memorial service on the Web, although the event appeared to fall well short of online viewership records. Global Web traffic was at least 19 percent above normal, and as high as 33 percent above normal, during most of the star-studded memorial at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, California, according to Akamai Technologies, a Massachusetts-based firm that monitors Internet traffic. CNN.com reported 9.7 million live video streams Tuesday between 12 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET — which included the entire memorial service — according to CNN spokeswoman Jennifer Martin. The news site’s all-time viewership record for a full day, almost 27 million video streams, was set on President Obama’s inauguration day in January. During that period Tuesday, CNN.com also attracted 81 million page views, 11.8 unique visitors and a peak of 781,000 co
