Twitter, Facebook the real winners of election night — Netflix not so lucky
Nov09
While web traffic was down nearly 15 percent on election night, Facebook and Twitter reaping huge traffic boosts suggest more people are turning to real-time conversation platforms as a so-called second screen. This isn’t new, of course, but it further documents a shift in watch behavior. Gone are the days of tuning in to a program and tuning out the world. Today, we use our phones, tablets and laptops to engage in real-time conversation about what we’re seeing and this was more apparent than ever last night as ‘TV [Trumped] the Internet,’ according to broadband intelligence company Sandvine. During last night’s election,…
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