The Web marches on, on Inauguration Day

The lead of the inaugural march down Pennsylvania Ave., January 20, 2009The Web's usual gridlock spots appear to have had a busy but smooth day. Twitter, which said it would double its capacity for the day, had no Fail Whale incidents. And the CNN/Facebook streaming-video partnership announced some numbers today too. As reported by Mashable, CNN served up 13.9 million video streams by noon EST, shattering its previous one-day record of 5.3 million (set on Election Day). At one point, Facebook users made over 3,000 comments per minute on the feed, and over 200,000 status updates were posted over the course of the morning.

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