Will the photo of Obama during the hunt for Bin Laden's most-watched Flickr?

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Wednesday, 04 May 2011 20:29

For better or for worse, this image has passed to posterity. As if it were a fiction film, to me has been ID: 4 immediately to mind-we see Barack Obama, U.S. President, his eyes fixed on the operation that led to the death of Osama bin Laden . Beside include several secretaries of the administration (notably Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, with a startled expression worthy of the Oscar), who closely watch the operation from the Situation Room of the White House. History pure photographic capture .

For this reason, it is no wonder that this image can be converted, almost in a matter of days, the most-watched on Flickr . The photo was uploaded about 10 am on May 2, through the account of the White House. According to the records of Flickr, the impressive growth in visits: at 15:30 hours, accumulating 390 000 views, to 17:00, reached 600 thousand. At 11:00 am on Tuesday, had already reached 1.4 million.

Not only the image received a boost. Flickr site of the White House usually has 100 000 visits per day, while Tuesday was 2.5 million. Until now, most viewed Flickr photo is an overview of Nohkalikai Falls , taken in 2006, which accumulates 2,978,625 views (and counting) in five years online. What is surprising is that with all the media coverage around the world, Obama managed to nearly 1.6 million in less than 38 hours.

Beyond the impressive number of visits, we must also emphasize how the picture gradually has become an Internet meme. The photograph of the Situation Room, as à la Hollywood, has become a target of jokes and parodies assemblies . As always, the Internet is not only important how many people see an image, but how many people appropriate and adjust. This is how we convert a historic moment of collective memory.

From now on, I nominate the picture of Obama as one of the candidates to be in the top 10 of memes of 2011, right?

Will the photo of Obama during the hunt for Bin Laden's most-watched Flickr? written ALT1040 on 4 May, 2011 by Pepe Flores
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