Use of Social Media and the Internet on Inauguration Day

Here are some interesting facts on how people used social media and the internet to follow the Inauguration-

• The Presidential Inaugural Committee setup an inauguration channel on YouTube, a twitter account, and a flickr account
• People posted and followed updates on twitter using #inaug09
• A graph on the twitter blog shows the number of twitter updates
• Photos were shared on Flickr using the inauguration tag
• According to the Google Blog, the top keywords used during the day on Google were live inauguration coverage, inauguration day 2009 streaming, listen to inauguration live
• A graph on Google shows that the number of searches dropped from when the presidential oath began and when the Inaugural speech ended

Links for more information-

Inauguration Day: Social Media Goes to Washington

Interactive Inauguration of Obama Is Just the Beginning

Obama's Is First Web 2.0 Inauguration

Live-Blogging the Social Media Inauguration

Official Google Blog: Search findings from the U.S. presidential inauguration