World Cup fans bombard Twitter
2010-06-26 13:45
The 2010 Fifa World Cup has increased the number of tweets fired
off at Twitter, the microblogging service, to a record high of 3 283 per
second.
The winning spike in tweets came right after a referee’s whistle
ended a Thursday match in which Japan beat Denmark 3-1.
The previous tweets-per-second record of 3 085 was set last week
after the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics in the final game of US
National Basketball Association championships.
“We continued to see big spikes in tweets following goals in the
World Cup,” Twitter said in a message announcing the new tweets-per-second
record.
The rate of tweeting typically averages 750 per second, according
to the San Francisco-based start-up.
The microblogging service has exploded in popularity since it was
launched in March 2006 and Twitter chief operating officer Dick Costello said
recently that it now attracted 190 million visitors a month.
Last week, Twitter warned users to expect outages as it tried to
cope with the heavy traffic during the World Cup.
- Sapa - AFP