Supersonic jump results in record at YouTube

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The record jump of Felix Baumgartner from the stratosphere, and the video platform YouTube brings a new high. In the lead up to eight million people watched at the same time online, as the Austrians bailed out of his shell and hurtling to the ground, according to a YouTube blog entry. This is also likely to record live broadcasts on the Internet ever be: As the current peak were the over seven million viewers, the network service provider Akamai counted in January 2009 during the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama.


When messaging service Twitter was Baumgartner's jump for hours on the top issue in the trend charts. At the same time several fake Twitter accounts were under Baumgartner's name in no time thousands of new subscribers. Some of these accounts tweets flitted in front of the stratosphere, some were very obvious parody with lyrics like "One small step for man, one giant leap for the marketing of energy drinks."

On the Facebook page of the mission collected the image on the Baumgartner after landing kneeling on the ground, more than 470,000 "Likes" .

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