One Million Viewers Watch Casey Anthony Verdict Announcement Online

The verdict in the State of Florida vs. Casey Anthony murder trial led to an outrage online amongst viewers.

Content delivery network Akamai reports there was a spike in its Net Usage Index for News around the time of the verdict. As the verdict was announced, news site page-views jumped from about 2 million to nearly 3.3 million a minute — nearly all of that coming from the United States.

CNN saw an online traffic spike as well. The network says that more than 1 million users were watching CNN.com/live between 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. This was 30 times higher than the prior four-week average. A sudden rush also experienced in regular web traffic, with 12 million page-views — four times the four-week average — on the site during the hour the verdict was announced.

Twenty-five-year-old Casey Anthony was found not guilty of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter. Her trial lasted nearly six weeks, but the case itself has been a big part of cable news for the past three years.

The Anthony trial was streamed online as much as broadcast on cable TV. This allowed individuals to tune in from work and to comment using social media in real time.

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