Twitter Activity Around Target’s Credit Card Breach [STATS]

Amid holiday heyday, Target’s payment systems were hacked, compromising 40 million customers’ payment information.

Target’s target by hackers stretched from Black Friday through December 15.

But at that point Twitter activity about the unfortunate data breach was still manifest.

Data from analytics firm Crimson Hexagon breaks down the Twitter Target buzz after the first two and a half weeks.

– From December 18-19, almost three weeks after the hack, more than 587,000 tweets relevant to Target’s credit card breach were sent, a rate of about 12,000 tweets per hour.

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