In 2009, Nicholson, Akamai estimated 3.8 million peak concurrent viewers for Obama's inauguration at its peak.
Their late-night session broke Twitch streaming records with about 628,000 concurrent viewers online.
By Wednesday night, friends told me, the document had nearly seventy names and double-digit concurrent viewers online.
The two drew a record-breaking 628,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch — roughly 11.5 Yankee Stadiums at full capacity.
At its peak, 12 04 p.m., that meant 4.6 million concurrent viewers, according to spokesman Chris Nicholson.
And then two days after that, 36,000 concurrent viewers and a total of 750,000 for the broadcast," he says.
The maximum number of concurrent viewers — a more comparable number to Nielsen metrics — was 2.3 million at the time Trump took the oath.
Last year, the Evo stream for Super Smash Bros Melee broke the 200,000 viewer mark, setting a new record for concurrent viewers at a fighting game event.
But another tournament is bigger still: the League of Legends Championship final last October brought in 8.5m concurrent viewers and 32m viewers in total, a 400% increase from 2012.
In March, more than a million viewers logged in to watch the Extreme Masters World Championship in Katowice, Poland – the record for the number of concurrent viewers watching a single channel on Twitch to date.
It peaked at 121,000 concurrent viewers. .
