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October 14, 2012 09:38 pm GMT
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Space Jump Live Stream Already Breaks YouTube Record by 10x
On top of the world record for longest freefall jump, Felix Baumgartner's Red Bull Stratos space jump has already broken an Internet record. More than 5.3 million people are tuning in to watch the live video of the jump on YouTube, setting an Internet video record.
According to All Things D, the previous YouTube viewing record was set during the London Summer Olympic Games, when about 500,000 people concurrently tuned in to live video.
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