• D: All Things Digital, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 1:21 PM

Yesterday's funeral and memorial service for Michael Jackson was the third biggest Web event of the year, failing to be as big as news of Jackson's death, or Barack Obama's inauguration, Peter Kafka reports. Akamai, which operates a content delivery network, says it delivered 2,185,000 "live and on-demand streams" yesterday-far less than the 7 million-plus streams it delivered during Obama's inauguration.

Facebook, which incorporated live video streams from CNN, E!, ABC and MTV, says that one million users posted 800,000 related status updates during the event, with the overwhelming majority coming from CNN. By comparison, there were 1.8 million status updates with the word "Obama" in them during the inauguration.

Meanwhile, CNN says it served up 781,000 concurrent live streams during Jackson's memorial service, compared to 1.3 million during the inauguration. And MSNBC is claiming 3 million live streams -- different than concurrent streams -- and says this is the second-highest total after the inauguration.

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