Was Tuesday the Biggest Traffic Day in Internet News Media History?
The financial crisis earlier this week had at least one positive outcome: It was incredible for Web traffic to news sites. In fact, it’s reasonable to assume that it was the biggest day in the history of current events-focused Internet destinations.
As Andy Plesser at Beet.TV points out (on video!), both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal had their biggest traffic days ever.
As the most visible papers in the city where the financial crisis was occurring, NYT and WSJ were perfectly positioned to see huge pageview numbers, but given that Web traffic to current events sites is continually
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