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A total of 162.9 million viewers tuned into Super Bowl XLV, making it the most most-watched TV show ever, and apparently, a lot of those viewers were tweeting about it. During the last minutes of the game, fans set a new record for tweets per second for any sporting event.

At 10:07:16pm EST, fans sent 4,064 tweets per second (TPS), breaking the previous record of the 3,283 TPS sent when Japan defeated Denmark during last summer’s World Cup. Actually, throughout the Super Bowl, Twritters broke the sporting TPS record six times, including the early touchdowns by the Packers and Steelers and several times during the halftime show.

So who do you think was the most talked about person in all these tweets was? Well, Usher, of course. His surprise appearance during the halftime show earned him the second highest TPS stat and the crown as the most talked about person. In line after him were a slew of other pop stars with Aaron Rodgers claiming the sixth spot. Who cares about the players? The Super Bowl is about talking about all the commercials and pop star appearances, right?

The Super Bowl TPS stats didn’t come close to the current, overall record set just after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Eve with 6,939 TPS. Beat that tweeting party record, sports fans!

TwitPic, the media sharing service for Twitter, just launched video sharing support for its service. Now, instead of just postings pictures of whatever you see, eat, or do, you can take a video. All of your followers will love it!

You can now upload a video you want to share from the site itself, from your phone via email, or from supported Twitter/Twitpic clients. Its competitor, yfrog, already has video sharing capabilities, so it’s about time, TwitPic. When you only have 140 characters, you need all the help you can get. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” or so they say, but with a video, you can actually say those words or share other’s words (record crazy people on the subway).

One thing, wouldn’t these be a TwitVids, TwitPics? Oh, also check out TwitPic’s launch video, featuring founder Noah Everett and outtakes.

I mean, the game was pretty good too. But the commercials could’ve been better and the halftime show almost destroyed my faith in humanity. But did you know why I had the most fun this Super Bowl? Twitter. More »

Internet anger surely broke some speed yesterday after designer Kenneth Cole’s unfortunate attempt at humor [above] apparently stopped all of Twitter dead in its tracks. Nearly everyone with an “@” in front of their names took to the microblogging service to condemn Cole’s words, and they were, in fact, Cole’s words.

Cole quickly apologized in his next tweet, stating, “Re Egypt tweet: we weren’t intending to make light of a serious situation. We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment.” In the wake of the apology, Cole opted to keep the much re-tweeted post up–a historical document of sorts.

The spoofs, too, came at record speeds, with a number of fake Kenneth Cole accounts launched. @kennethcolepr sported the tagline “A disaster near you,” rose quickly to the top, becoming the default source of dark potshots at the fashion icon. And with it came the hashtag #KennethColeTweets.