Several Internet records were broken on Friday during the first royal wedding of the social media era. Billions of videos were streamed live and also recorded to see afterwards, as the actual time of the event was converted to 2 a.m. in the large audience of U.S. and varied even more for other viewers worldwide.
Image via Wikipedia Even though the showiness and ceremonial nature of entire event was enough itself, still the major boost to the views was observed to be caused by a little unhappy girl and an unordinary hat. Overall complete ten out of ten worldwide topics to form the trend that day on Twitter were related to the royal event and it took no more than few minutes for Twitter to become a royal social network. On the other hand, a total of more than1.6 million videos were streaming simultaneously on Friday at the time of the wedding. The ceremony of Prince William and Kate Middleton has beaten all the previous Internet traffic records which were set on very large events like the FIFA World Cup or death of Michael Jackson. But all the buzz of the event reached its peak due to one little flower girl, Grace Van Cutsem.
The 3 years old goddaughter of Prince William, Grace, who is assumedly not very well used to the sounds of RAF flyover being young royal blood. Too late, she had to hear those sounds while standing at the Royal Wedding on the Buckingham Palace balcony. During the time both Kate Middleton and Prince William were kissing Grace was so annoyed by the voice of jet planes, she quickly grasped her ears strongly. This created such a scene with the royal couple standing on the balcony and the little girl right beside them holding her ears simultaneously with a fierce face that entire Internet was taken over by that scene.
After the royal wedding was over, than the surprising results were declared and little Grace was found to be the most witnessed thing on the entire internet beating the Steve Jobs' key notes and even Justin Bieber's singing. Including the little Grace, the second thing which stood out on the royal event and boasted its audience significantly was Princess Beatrice’s attention-seeking hat, which was instantly named as the “Cthulhu hat” by the NBC correspondent, Helen A. S. Popkin. The hat gathered a lot of fan following and was talked a lot about on Facebook.
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