It may be Obama Day today, but it was definitely also Facebook Day – the company had its Facebook Connect service integrated nicely into the live CNN.com coverage of the inauguration. Facebook users could log into Facebook while watching the event, read comments from friends (or anyone) and leave their own.
We updated our post at 10:15 PST with some of the user stats sent over by Facebook – over 600,000 status updates had been posted from the live stream by then.
We requested updated stats this evening, and got them. Things sure didn’t let up. Since this morning more than 1.5 million status updates have been posted through the feed (there were 200,000 b 8:30 am PST). During the broadcast an average of 4,000 status updates were written every minute, and 8,500 were written every minute during Obama’s speech.
That was one hell of an advertisement for Facebook. Nicely done.
What’s taking Facebook so long to have its Google moment?
Wow, Congratulations America!
I wonder how much of Facebook’s server capacity the whole presidential thing was gobbling up today.
Do you know what technology powered the livestream by CNN? The quality was pretty good considering how many people were watching.
I definitely commend them on this connection. I think its cool to see the relatively cutting edge services (FB) hooking up with orgs like CNN.
However, there are still many tech issues to resolve. Like, I couldn’t really tell if the image in this post was the live feed or an image. When I watch cnn.com/live via Facebook today it was Frozen for about 80% of the time. MLB.com had a great feed, as well as Hulu.
Slowly but surely. Great post Mike. Congrats to FB.
Don’t forget Ustream. I’m from Singapore, feed was clear and crisp throughout!
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It was also amazing that Zuckerberg’s sister was a featured commentator on CNN.
Do you mean 1.5M million Obama-related updates during the CNN/FB livestream…. or on FB in general? If its the latter, seems WAY too low.
It was amazing seeing all the moving status updates. I was definitely one of those posting every minute or so!
Facebook definitely was on the ball with this whole thing…congrats to them. They’re more relevant overall in my mind than MySpace is nowadays.
congrats to facebook. i just hope obama can live up to all this hype about him.
Congrats to CNN too. It’s refreshing to see a traditional media company embracing technology like this. They are really on a roll lately, like the hologram on election night and adoption of Photosynth. Even basic stuff like multiple live streams are implemented well. I can switch from stream to stream and they play almost instantaneously.
0.5 percent of the U.S. population, way to go.
well how many have fb?
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I love the integration of facebook on CNN and other such sites. It was cool to be able to watch the inauguration live and see the Facebook updates at the same time. Now if only Twitter can figure out a way to integrate in the same way, my world will be fully at peace (well not fully but close
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And how does this brings Facebook closer to having a business model?
I’m quite confident Facebook made mad xXx $ gUaP $ xXx off of the whole presidential thingy, just by selling ads alone!
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Unfortunately, the feed was not available in Japan
(nice global reach).
No surprise there
Very good showing for Facebook today. They are on the ball!
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Facebook rocks. There are endless opportunities with Facebook and Facebook Connect. This year could be really interesting. And it started just few weeks ago.
facebook is doing amazing stuff, they really understand the media
i really love facebook. i know that there is a lot more with it. i am also looking forward for more incredible features coming up from facebook.
I wonder how many twitter updates related to the inauguration happened during the same day.
fab! It was interesting to see Facebook do a twitter, and succeed!! They might have just discovered something really really interesting here..
That’s great for facebook. Pretty amazing! A lot of hype hope his work lives up to this!
This wasn’t facebook’s day – it was (once again) CNN.com’s day. It was CNN’s coverage, not the FB integration that made the event what it was. They could just have easily integrated twitter or MySpace or any number of other social tools. Content is still king, and CNN proved it.
CNN and Facebook was great yesterday. I watched live coverage the entire day online. Thanks CNN & Facebook for a great job.
Once again, technology for technology sake. I have no practical use for watching this while my friends watch it, and then we make comments over a computer.
I think we need to get back living in reality and not through a computer.
Of course, as someone mentioned above, 99.5% of the population did experience this in reality.
What are you doing on this site? TV is too one dimensional. You, like me may have no use for this, but integration of technology will interest people differently. Personally I’d be more interested in good wikipedia integration into videos, allowing me to hit a wiki button to provide me with a link to the wiki on what was just said. It will take a while, but I am sure it is all coming
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i lik cnn but .i have a problem in english. ilive in dakar senegal .