The social web had record-setting responses to the Red Bull Stratos space jump Sunday. To start with, more than 8 million viewers tuned into YouTube's live video stream of Felix Baumgartner's leap. A number of Stratos-related topics trended on Twitter, including #SpaceJump, #RedBull and #FelixBaumgartner. We'll keep you posted when we have numbers in from Twitter and other networks about the volume of comments on the supersonic space jump.
In the meantime, we've rounded up some memorable reactions from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, demonstrating just how taken the Internet was with the Red Bull event.
Twitter user David Armano pointed out that the event was a major victory for Red Bull, which has elevated usual perceptions about publicity stunts.
Kudos to Red Bull who just re-defined publicity stunt into something more substantial. A trans-media marketing blitzkrieg with a longtail.— David Armano (@armano) October 14, 2012
What did you share on social networks when you watched the jump from space? Let us know your reactions in the comments.