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10,000 Tweets a Second

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Tuesday Feb 14, 2012

Super BowlThe Superbowl is always an interesting experience. Some years, the game is horrible, and the commercials are the MVPs. Others, the game is captivating, but the commercials leave us scratching our heads. Thankfully, this year’s game had good commercials and a great final few minutes.

Because the game ended in such a fashion, the Superbowl broke the record of Tweets Per Second (TPS) at a sporting event with an average of 10,000 tweets per second in the last three minutes. This is double last year’s TPS high, at 4,064 during the Superbowl. That’s a lot of Tweets! Read the rest of this entry »


The New Streak: A blog by Moxley Carmichael