TV Screening Of 1986 Japanese Anime Film Sets 25,088 Tweets Per Second Record, Says Twitter

And as part of their #YearInReview series, Twitter published a list of all the major events on Twitter in 2011, with the typical entry generating a mark of somewhere between five and seven thousand TPS.

Now, we have a new benchmark on Twitter. It happened in Japan, triggered an unbelievable 25,088 tweets per second, and took place during a television screening of an animated movie… from 1986.

Yep: something doesn’t add up.