Pregnancy news Beyonce at the MTV VMAs births a new record 8.868 Twitter Tweets per second

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Beyonce helped push Twitter to a new record in terms of Tweets on the second last night when pop singer announced her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards. According to Twitter, big MTV # VMA Beyonce at the time gave Twitter entries bump: 8.868 Tweets per second.

Beyonce showed her pregnancy at the awards show last night, and the announcement was rubbing her baby bump at the scene after her performances of the singer. That's when Twitter saw a record number of Tweets sent.

MTV also saw record online viewership of the event, with 2.3 million video streams a day. MTV reported that on Sunday, MTV.com drew the largest VMA day audience ever (almost 2 million), while MTV's mobile site, scored his biggest day ever, including 2.7 million mobile views. MTV.com also top-notch referrals from Twitter and never on Sunday "was the most socially VMA day ever," according to the network.

It's a little surprising that Baby news from celebrity has an entry for Tweets per second. The previous record holder TPS occurred in the last minutes of United States women's soccer team game against Japan in July, with 7.196 Tweets per second.

From the perspective of the last write event bin Laden death attracts significant peak in Tweets per second 5.106 TPS. Super Bowl 2011 year saw 4.064 TP, and an all-time high was new year's Eve 2010 year in Japan, which hit 6939 TPS at its peak. Day of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March using Twitter reached 5530 TPS. And during the Royal Wedding in England in April Twitter peaked at 3966 TPS.

I'm probably not the place to Beyonce Baby news by the same shock or category news worthy event as the above (I actually didn't even watch the VMAs last night). But the fact that the news was able to reach such a high participation for Twitter message that people use the medium of communication in record numbers.

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