It was a fully loaded weekend. The world might have just witnessed the two most significant days of the year: Osama din Laden’s death and the Royal wedding. From Europe to the Middle East, billions watched and swarmed the internet for information, live streaming and receiving by-the-minute developments.

In fact, Prince William and Kate Middleton, now known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, ruled the internet on the most important day of their lives, ranking as the sixth biggest event in web history, and breaking live streaming records.  Anything under “Royal” category items allowed eBay to enjoy $70,000 worth of sales, while the sudden spike of Flash content delivered video on-demand, and even BBC’s website crashed because of unexpected surge of visitors.

Almost twenty five percent followed the hours-long ceremony online according to a report. Yahoo! has also benefited with this royal union as it drove them off to a compelling traffic record of 400 million page views. Outrageous as it may sound, but even the hat of Princess Beatrice, a cousin of the groom, became a web sensation,  receiving a Facebook page of its own.

An infographic by NBC News showed interesting trends within the internet universe, especially the social networks—with followers of @Royal Wedding reaching up to 1.5 million in no time and 500,000 impressions and 7,500 attending on Facebook.

The dust of this colossal celebration was just settling when the news of Osama bin Laden’s death surfaced, first on Twitter—yeah! From the feast of love to the demise of a Muslim group leader, the internet must have gone crazy. But, it survived. Here’s an infographic on how the world reacted to the death of bin Laden—and clearly majority rejoiced. This surprising and violent killing of a known terrorist became a hit within social networks.

But while everyone fled to social media sites, the information sourced and shared within this sphere was referenced back to the traditional mass media portals.  Big data had a starring role on all accounts, managing the massive demands of consumer internet use, but also helping special op teams locate Osama bin Laden. During the surveillance by the intelligence group, citing big data software management tools being useful for military technologies. Sadly in what could-be a time to reflect, some has exploited the happening and took advantage of the situation to launch cyber attacks. The FBI has already warned the public of email spams containing alleged fake photos of bin Laden’s body after the shooting incident in Pakistan.

Social media, without any doubt, has played yet again a key role in spreading love, hatred, celebrations and information from corner to corner of the globe. While some may think that it is competing with broadcast media, social platforms such as Twitter just amplifies newsworthy links and posts.