Twitter Users Welcome 2012 With 16,000 Tweets-Per-Second
No one knows what 2012 will bring, but Twitter users were sure excited to welcome it this past weekend. When midnight hit, the tweets erupted, more than doubling last year’s tweets-per-second record and bringing in the new year with gusto.
As the Daily Mail reports, Twitter users were so eager to tweet their well-wishes for the new year that they caused an hour-long blackout.
This year’s tweet celebration saw a new New Year’s record of 16,197 tweets-per-second.
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