New Tweets Per Second Record — 25,088 TPS — Set By Screening Of Japanese Movie “Castle in the Sky”

December 13, 2011

Move over Beyonce (sigh, I can’t believe I’m writing this), a new tweets per second record has been set. According to a statement by Twitter, the Japanese television screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky” hooked up 25,088 Tweets per second, more than twice the previous TPS record, on December 9th.

Prior to the “Castle in the Sky” tweeting the record had been set this August when Beyonce’s big MTV #VMA pregnancy announcement gave Twitter it own proud bump, 8,868 Tweets per second. Before that the TPS record was held by a U.S. women’s soccer team’s game at 7,196 Tweets per second.

Other notable Twitter events? Bin Laden’s death at 5,106 TPS, Super Bowl 2011 at 4,064 TPS, New Years Eve 2010 in Japan at 6,939 TPS, the day of the Japanese earthquake and Tsunami in March at 5,530 TPS and the Royal Wedding in England in April at 3,966 TPS.

“Castle in the Sky” is a cult film (obviously) that has been voted one of the 100 best animations of all time.

Article source: TechCrunch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Z-2jPKa3iPM/

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