Twitter Sees All-Time Record Traffic Spike During London Riots
As rioting has continued to spread across London, with the capital seeing a third night of violence that has now started to bleed into other major cities, the British population have been turning to social networking sites for news and updates, with Twitter in particular seeing an enormous uptake in traffic.
Indeed, UK visits to Twitter yesterday were so frequent that a new all-time record has been set.
As reported by Experian Hitwise, Twitter accounted for one out of every 170 UK internet visits on August 8 – approximately 3.4
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