Twitter Users Posted More than 3 Million Tweets About #sandy and #hurricanesandy

While Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast on Monday night, Twitter was ablaze with commentary about the storm. Social insights company Topsy has shared with us their analysis of what Twitter users had to say about the hurricane in the first 24 hours.

While Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast on Monday night, Twitter was ablaze with commentary about the storm. Social insights company Topsy has shared with us their analysis of what Twitter users had to say about the hurricane in the first 24 hours.

By Topsy’s calculation:

  • There were more than 3 million tweets including #sandy and/or #hurricanesandy.
  • Twitter activity peaked at more than 290,000 mentions, right around the time when seawater started entering the subway tunnels that run under the East River.
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