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Most Super Bowl Tweets Were Not About the Game
- 15% was about Tom Brady, and his attractive wife, Gisele Bundchen
- 4% was about the Giants winning
- 0.5% was on Victor Cruz’s salsa moves
- 0.3% was over Ahmed Bradshaw’s attempt to sit down on the goal line (resulting in a touchdown)
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The Top 15 Tweets-Per-Second Records
Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people — 100 million active users at last count — continue to flock onto the microblogging service every month. Half of those users log in every day to get their 140-characters-or-less dose of tweets.
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This year, the TPS peak was 12,233 Tweets. The spike took place in the final three minutes of the game, during which fans sent an average of 10,000 TPS. Madonna’s performance during halftime was a big hit, too—there was an average of 8,000 TPS sustained during her performance, with a peak of 10,245 Tweets. (Ads)
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Tweets Per Second on New Year’s Eve.
(Source: Flickr / twitteroffice)




