World Cup, NBA Fans Break Twitter Record

Two major sporting events this week created tweet tsunamis that helped Twitter reach all-time records for tweets. After the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament started two weeks ago, the social networking site began seeing huge traffic whenever a big goal was scored. Though Twitter normally sees about 750 tweets per second on an average day, a record was set Monday when tweets were sent at a rate of 2,940 per second just 30 seconds after Japan scored against … [Read more...]