super bowl twitter - AllTwitter http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter The Unofficial Twitter Resource Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:01:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Super Bowl, Madonna Set New Sport, Entertainment Twitter Records [STATS] The closing moments of Super Bowl XLVI, which saw the New York Giants come from behind to edge the New England Patriots 21-17 with a last-minute touchdown, were so dramatic that they set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter.

The final three minutes of the Super Bowl saw Twitter users firing off tweets at an average of 10,000 per second, which is an all-time peak for a sporting event on the network.

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]]> Shea Bennett http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/super-bowl-tweets-record_b18311#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/super-bowl-tweets-record_b18311 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/?p=18311 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:04 +0000