Excessive Tweeting Takes Toll On Olympics
The staggering size of the Olympics is doing more than congesting London's street traffic - it's hampering data traffic, as well. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is pleading with fans to reduce the number of tweets and texts they're sending, as the data usage has actually started to interfere with the games. Fans are asked to keep their social media updates to ones that are "urgent."
The most noticeable effect of the intense mobile device traffic is that reporters and the Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) were having trouble providing up-to-date information about the men's cycling race as it happened. At least one data carrier experienced major network disruption, and the IOC pointed to the overwhelming mobile device usage as slowing info from the GPS system. The event itself wasn't affected by the network problems, thankfully. The issue affected reporting of the distance between the race's leaders and the following cyclists.
The most noticeable effect of the intense mobile device traffic is that reporters and the Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) were having trouble providing up-to-date information about the men's cycling race as it happened. At least one data carrier experienced major network disruption, and the IOC pointed to the overwhelming mobile device usage as slowing info from the GPS system. The event itself wasn't affected by the network problems, thankfully. The issue affected reporting of the distance between the race's leaders and the following cyclists.
