World Cup fever pushed the Internet to a new record on Friday, according to measurements from Akamai.
Traffic to news sites globally started a steady climb about 6 a.m. Eastern time and peaked six hours later at noon, reaching nearly 12.1 million visitors per minute.
World Cup shatters previous global record for Internet Traffic
Passing the 2008 election mark of 8.1 by 25%. This World Cup thing is a pretty big deal I guess?
YEAR OF SOCCER, here and everywhere.
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