The tragic events in Japan and the ensuing widespread nuclear threat are key events for media organizations around the world.
Reuters.com has been experiencing strong, sticky and continuous coverage since Friday reaching up-to 25,000 concurrent unique users on the page. The Reuters ScribbleLive live blog features news, video and photos from Reuters journalists as well as exchanges with select audience members. Reuters displays real time numbers of concurrent users on each live story and their increasing audience numbers are a direct effect of quality coverage. While we cannot reveal average time on page and returning visitor data, these metric demonstrate the sticky nature of rapidly updating live stories and blogs.
The record breaking results for Reuters and ScribbleLive are exciting, dramatic and an important milestone in the evolution of real-time news.
ScribbleLive and Retuers coverage is widespread throughout the world.
Kudos to Reuters for operating that blog. It was the most up to date and timely source for this terrible disaster. Thank you!