CNN, Facebook Partner For Obama Speech
CNN and social networking site Facebook are teaming up for President Barack Obama's Tuesday evening address to Congress in hopes of recreating their successful Inauguration Day live streaming and commenting collaboration. During that historic event, over 2 million Facebook status updates were posted through the feed with 4,000 status updates per minute on average and a spike of 8,500 updates when Obama began his speech, Facebook reported. CNN touted the effort as "the largest live video event in Internet history." The partnership was "a symbolic day for social TV" that showed millions of people want to talk with their friends while watching TV that they care about, even if they can't be in the same place to watch it together, according to the Inside Facebook blog. Read more here.
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