[Infowarrior] - Google: Spacejump set new YouTube record

[Richard Forno]

Skydiver Baumgartner sets YouTube live view record

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner smashed a number of records with his "edge of space" stunt - including for live streaming.

More than eight million people flocked to their devices to watch the 43-year-old break the speed of sound live on Google's YouTube site.

It is the largest number of concurrent live streams in the website's history, Google UK confirmed to the BBC.

Mr Baumgartner also broke the record for the highest freefall.

He jumped from a capsule taken to 128,100ft (24 miles; 39km) above New Mexico in the US by a giant helium balloon.

It took nine minutes for him to reach the ground.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19947159

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