London (AFP) - royal of Britain broken marriage records for live streaming on Friday, the Internet companies said, causing some Web sites to falter under the strain that hundreds of millions watched online.
The marriage of Prince William to Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has been streamed live on the British Royal family YouTube channel - the first royal wedding to be covered in manner.
Internet society Livestream, which is in partnership with the Associated Press, CBS, and the Press Association, said that the event has its own records, with more than 330 000 concurrent viewers at any given time.
"We anticipate the final analytics to show at least two million unique viewers throughout the service on livestream.com for the full ceremony," said a spokesman.
Akamai, a carrier of important traffic, has been handling almost three million simultaneous viewers, beating his record of 1.6 million simultaneous live streams in the World Cup last year.
The BBC Web site, which was also showing coverage live, had trouble in the strain Friday morning, flashing intermittently a message error at the ceremony, saying that the site is "abnormal traffic."
"We know some technical problems with BBC Online because of the sheer weight of traffic, which can cause the site to be slower than normal in some cases," said a spokesman.
Top 10 topics oriented of twitter Twitter, nine were related to the royal wedding. They ranged from the tweetgift # RoyalWedding and # proudtobebritish to the words "they have embraced".
"Royal wedding coverage" and "Kate Middleton wedding dress" were the hottest two searches on Google, including the famous logo on the home page devoted to marriage royal and mapped the route of the Royal procession in 3D.
Google "doodle", a cartoon of the Abbey of Westminster featured with the couple of fairy tale of riding in a horse-drawn carriage and linked to a page of results of research on the royal wedding.
However fears that world media event - should reach two billion viewers in the world and many of them online - could "break" Internet has proved unfounded.
The royals have used the web extensively in the build up to April 29 to update the public on the arrangements for the day, with channels on Facebook, YouTube and Flickr as well as the official website of Royal Weddingwww.officialroyalwedding2011.org.
Representatives of the Palace hosted a live multimedia blog on the royal website, where visitors could congratulate the couple in a book of marriage in line and make donations to the charity Royal Wedding Fund.
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