Showing posts with label Yahoo sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yahoo sports. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Fifa world cup causing major internet issues
The Fifa world cup has pretty much shut the internet down. Currently Twitter, Yahoo! Sports, Shoutitout, Tumblr, and other smaller sites are either down or running extremely slow. The earlier USA goal started the problems on Yahoo! sports which was completely down, and Twitter was showing almost 100% fail whales, though both services are up I still get a fail whale here and there and Yahoo! Sports is slow to let you comment. Shoutitout lets you update but sometimes you have to refresh and try again 4 or 5 times before the Shout posts or click the Shout button servral times and it will eventually add 2 or more posts. Tumblr is off and on in site uptime and is extremely slow when it is up. But, you gotta update the world about something the whole world is watching anyway so keep Tweeting, Shouting, commenting, Tumblring? even if it is making those sites not work!
USA VS Algeria may set an internet traffic record
The dramatic ending to the World Cup match between the USA and Algeria could set a new record for Internet traffic.
We’ve been watching Akamai’s Net Usage Index, which tracks visitors per minute on more than 100 of the major news sites in Akamai’s network. In the minutes following Landon Donovan’s game winning goal in the 91st minute of action (which sent the U.S. to the round of 16), traffic spiked to 11.2 million visitors per minute, which moves the event past the 2008 presidential election as the second highest traffic spike of all-time.
Today’s number was also likely pushed significantly higher because England and Slovenia were also playing a suspenseful World Cup match at the same time. The plethora of World Cup breaking news briefly knocked Yahoo Sports offline and also caused issues at Twitter –- though the latter has been somewhat of a regular occurrence during the World Cup (on a related note, tweets containing “USA” spiked to 6% of total tweet volume).
The overall traffic record was set earlier this month during the first day of World Cup action, where traffic exceeded 12 million visitors per minute. We’ll wait and see what the final numbers are from Akamai, but for the moment, it looks like Donovan’s goal will go down in Internet history at least as a solid number two.
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