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BBC Sports Registered Record 55 Million Visits
BBC
The Olympics brought a record number of visits to the online site. Some 37 million were from within the UK, the BBC said. The figure includes both mobile and computer access. On 1 August, when cyclist Bradley Wiggins won his gold medal in the men's time trial, there was more traffic to the BBC website than during the entire FIFA World Cup in 2010. There were also 106 million requests for online video during the games . This was up from 32 million during the Beijing Olympics.
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Twitter: Olympics Inspired 150 Million-Plus Tweets
Red Rocket Media
Telegraph.co.uk reports that over the course of the Games, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt attracted the most discussion; mostly due to his unprecedented defence of his 100m and 200m medals. Bolt's 200m win generated more than 80,000 tweets per minute compared to his 100m win, which gathered around 74,000 tweets per minute. In terms of Team GB athletes, Andy Murray's demolition of Tennis hero Roger Federer proved to be a highlight for Twitter users as it prompted the third biggest spike in tweets during the Games, peaking at 57,000 tweets per minute.
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London 2012 Reveals Late-night IPad Fetish
PaidContent.org
While NBC is still taking a social media pummelling for "failing" with what it hails as a record-breaking Olympics audience, the BBC, whose Olympics undertaking has been lauded, is telling the world about its new online records. On the busiest individual days of London 2012, BBC.co.uk served even more traffic than during the whole of the 2012 soccer World Cup, BBC Olympics product head Cait O'Riordan writes (release). That number is 2.8% petabytes.
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Tesco's Blinkbox, HBO In Digital Deal
Digital Spy
Blinkbox, the online TV and movies service owned by Tesco, has agreed a major deal with HBO that makes content such as the second seasons of both Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire available to buy before they are out on DVD. Sky retains exclusive rights to broadcast all HBO shows on television and offer them via video on-demand as part of its major deal agreed last year for the launch of Sky Atlantic. But HBO Home Entertainment UK has turned to Blinkbox as a way to make its portfolio of TV shows available to purchase through the digital distribution platform.
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Mail Online Shamed Into Deleting Offensive Paragraph
The Guardian
A piece headlined Why our new legions of unemployed graduates need to adjust their expectations, by Dominique Jackson, contained this extraordinary paragraph: "The German slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei' is somewhat tainted by its connection with Nazi concentration camps, but its essential message, 'work sets you free' still has something serious to commend it." This grotesque lapse in taste was removed from the article once its presence was revealed on the Twittersphere.
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Facebook Deletes Page Denigrating Aborigines
The Australian
Facebook has bowed to pressure and removed a second racist member page denigrating Aboriginal Australians as drunks and thieves. Facebook made clear that it forcibly removed the second page in acknowledgement that it was in breach of local anti-discrimination laws. (Subscription required.)
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