Twitter was overrun with hashtags and drunk punditry as the returns work presidential election came in last night . We were there , and so was passably much all of America . Or you ’d call up so when you look at the freaking numbers . Reutersreportsthat commonwealth - loving tweeters enkindle off some 31 million election related messages last Nox .
The flood of tweets made the even “ the most tweet about event in US political chronicle . ” The former disk ( 10 million tweets ) was set during the first presidential debate on October 3rd .
The 140 character reference frenzy escalated to a maximum frequence of 327,000 tweets per minute at about 11:15 when the electronic connection were about to call theelection for Barack Obama . That ’s a heap of Twittering ! Are your fingers threadbare America ? You ’ve become four whole years to find . [ Reuters ]
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Update
Twitter ’s engineersposted official numbersbreaking down that 327,000 tweets per moment peak .
As an engineering team , we keep an center on all of the activeness across the weapons platform – – in particular , on the numeral of Tweets per second ( TPS ) . Last night , Twitter averaged about 9,965 TPS from 8:11pm to 9:11pm PT , with a one - endorsement vizor of 15,107 TPS at 8:20pm PT and a one - minute acme of 874,560 TPM . Seeing a sustained peak over the course of an entire event is a change from the style citizenry have antecedently turned to Twitter during live event .
That ’s some good tweetin ’ America ! [ Twitter ]
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