Twitter: Life, Death & Soccer Get Most Tweets Per Second In 2011
Today Twitter announced the Top Tweets per Second in 2011, part of its ongoing Year In Review. Back in October we complied a list at Search Engine Land, which is strikingly still similar. The top Twitter events displayed in “tweets per second” (or TPS) for 2011 were: 8,868 TPS: MTV Video Awards (Beyonce announces pregnancy) – August […]
Today Twitter announced the Top Tweets per Second in 2011, part of its ongoing Year In Review. Back in October we complied a list at Search Engine Land, which is strikingly still similar.
The top Twitter events displayed in “tweets per second” (or TPS) for 2011 were:
- 8,868 TPS: MTV Video Awards (Beyonce announces pregnancy) – August 28th
- 7,671 TPS: Troy Davis execution – September 20th
- 7,196 TPS: End of FIFA Women’s World Cup – July 17th
- 7,166 TPS: Brazil elimination from the Copa America – July 17th
- 7,064 TPS: Steve Jobs’s resignation from Apple – August 25th
- 6,939 TPS: New Years – Jan 1st
- 6,436 TPS: BET Awards – June 27th
- 6,303 TPS: UEFA Champions League – May 28th
- 6,049 TPS: Steve Jobs death – October 6th
- 5,531 TPS: NBA Finals – June 14th
For those that enjoy comparing the popularity of sports around the world, here are the major sports milestones from 2011:
- 7,196 TPS: End of FIFA Women’s World Cup – July 17th
- 7,166 TPS: Brazil elimination from the Copa America – July 17th
- 6,303 TPS: UEFA Champions League – May 28th
- 5,531 TPS: NBA Finals – June 14th
- 4,064 TPS: Superbowl – February 6th
Sorry NHL and MLB, you were the only main American professional sports organizations that didn’t make the cut.
Out of all the results on this list I was surprised that the death Muammar Gaddafi didn’t make this list. Truly a news-worthy world event, the death of this leader couldn’t top Beyonce’s baby announcement … or even make a blip on its radar.
For more information see the full graphic on Twitter.
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