Facebook, the social networking site revealed Tuesday.
Facebook was averaging over 4,000 status updates per hour this morning--a number that peaked at 8,500 updates every minute while President Barack Obama was giving his inaugural speech.
"We've never reached levels like this before," a Facebook spokesman told CNN.com. "Even just yesterday, we had more users online than we've ever had before, more new users than we've ever had before."
Facebook partnered with CNN to allow members watching inaugural festivities via CNN.com to sign in and update their statuses alongside the streaming video provided by the cable news channel.
As of 11:45 a.m. Eastern time, CNN had served 13.9 million live video streams globally since 6 a.m., according to Mashable.
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