Salvemos Eurovision Myspace page collapses!

by Sanjay (Sergio) Jiandani 83 views

The official Spanish Eurovision selection page of TVE and Myspace Salvemos Eurovision collapsed yesterday when online voting commenced, due to the massive influx of visitors wishing to vote for their favourite artists and songs. The servers of Myspace Spain recieved a record number of visits yesterday when the voting kicked off, thus surpassing the historical registered record of visits in Spain ,4 times the all time record/

The Spanish national broadcaster TVE's latest Eurovision selection method has surely proved to be very popular among the Spanish public as it registered a massive response yesterday. Due to the high number of visitors the servers of the Spanish Myspace were not able to handle the massive influx,thusresulting in amajor collapse. Henceforth TVE and Myspace have decided to postpone the online public voting for 48 hours. The duration of the voting will be prolonged now until the 25th of February midnight.

In an official press release TVE communicated their descion to postpone the voting for 48 hours, and prolong it for a further 2 days. They even mention that all the votes registered yesterday would not be accounted for in order to give a fair chance to all the participating artists and entries.Currently Myspace Spain and Myspace USA are working on the required technical feedback, thus enabling more powerful servers that will be able to support the massive influx of visitors and votes received.

Online voting to select your favourite candidate to represent Spain in the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest will kick off on Saturday and will last for 10 days, ceasing on Monday the 25th of February midnight. Visitors will be able to select their favourite entry among more than 500 comepeting artists. esctoday.com will keep you updated with the latest news fromSpain concerning Salvemos Eurovision.

Sanjay (Sergio) Jiandani

Head of International Relations & Communications

Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 21 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.