Record Number of Tweets Per Second Sent on New Years Eve
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10, 9, 8, 7… quick, get out your phone at tweet “Happy New Year” to all your followers before the ball drops! If you found yourself tweeting your New Year’s wishes instead of kissing your boyfriend, hugging your friends, or calling your mom as we entered 2011, you’re not alone. According to the Twitter Blog, just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1, an all-time record number of Tweets sent per second (TPS) was set as 6,939 TPS were sent.
The East coast time zone alone reached its peak of 3,000 TPS, which is almost more than the entire world sent during the peak moment of the World Cup. Twitter made a video which visualizes New Year’s Eve tweet data across the world. The circles get larger as more tweets are sent at that moment. It’s a neat because you can actually see the different amounts of tweets in each time zone as each one hits midnight.
Check out the video after the jump!
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