It was a high-voltage day for the Internet. I only have stats for a few sites, but rest assured that records were broken all over the place. Personally, I can't remember more than a few minutes (when I went to vote, e.g.) when I didn't have my laptop open, the better to surf around furiously with.

Twitter obliterated its own usage records. According to Biz Stone, the site's co-founder, Twitter's peak messaging rate (measured in messages per second) was 2-3 times higher than the previous record rate, set during the first presidential debate.

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