The news of Osama Bin Laden’s death was tweeted the most number of times in the history of the social networking site and it also generated the biggest sustained tweet rates ever. There are updated statistics updated by Twitter on its platform and it say that about 4,000 tweets were sent per second during beginning and end of President Obama’s speech. Now it is said that the real number of tweets were about 25% more.
Just before speech of Obama, there is about 5,106 tweets generated per second and it was the highest number of tweets at night. When he finished the speech, there were about 5,008 tweets sent per second. Twitter says that from 10:45 to 2.20 am ET, there was an average of 3,000 tweets every second. This equates to astronomical 27,900,000 tweets in a little over two and half hours. Between 10:45 and 12:30 ET, there were 3,440 tweets every second and during the peak time, Twitter had an average of about 12,384,000 tweets every hour.
This shows that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a momentous occasion. This event has taken over 3,283 tweets every second when Japan won against Denmark in the World Cup and also tweets of 4,064 every second during the final moments of Super Bowl this year.
But the record of most number of tweets in the same second is still at 6,939 when Japanese people wished New Year to each other. Here is the graph released by Twitter.
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