Akamai sees traffic surge to social networking sites

Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced that traffic on its platform related to its social media customers saw significant growth over the past year.

Akamai of Cambridge company is a global service provider for accelerating content and applications online.

According to the company, Akamai consistently delivers more than 1 million requests per second for businesses in the social media space, and according to data released by Hitwise for December 2007, Akamai supported seven of the top 10 most trafficked social networking sites and 92 percent of social networking site visits in the United States.

Akamai said it works with dozens of leading social media destination sites, as well as key technologies and applications that form this global ecosystem, including Bebo, Facebook, Friendster, Metacafe, MySpace, RockYou, Slide, and Tagged.

"The social media industry recently witnessed a massive tidal wave of adoption, and many companies realized their technology infrastructure would not be able to handle the unplanned, dramatic growth, and turned to Akamai," Akamai said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)