[Air-l] Internet traffic on Sept. 11

Steve Jones sjones at uic.edu
Mon Sep 17 09:01:53 PDT 2001


While I don't know about Internet traffic, there's a report up now, 
in PDF format, at 
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=45 that gives 
information from our tracking surveys last week based on questions 
concerning Internet use during and after the attacks in NYC and DC.

Sj

At 10:14 AM -0500 9/17/01, Ryan J. Burns wrote:
>Has anyone seen statistics on Internet traffic on Sept. 11 and 12? If so,
>where? I noticed that the major news websites were really "slow" on Sept.
>11. I also heard the CEO of Earthlink on NPR talk about huge spikes in
>traffic to his member sites. He also mentioned that e-mail use was down, and
>the use of synchronous chat was up. I'm teaching a CMC class and would love
>to talk about it in class.
>
>Ryan J. Burns, Ph.D.
>rburns1 at tulane.edu
>Visiting Instructor of Media Studies
>Department of Communication
>Tulane University
>
>
>
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