Social networks are changing the way we communicate and relate to each other. Until just a few months ago, audiences measured the general interest of people on certain issues, now Twitter is one more tool for analyzing society. What has been the news that has generated the most tweets per second so far?
On August 29 after her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, the singer Beyoncé, while stroking her belly, asked the audience to welcome someone very special. This curious way of publicizing her pregnancy generated a whirlwind of tweets that set a historic record on the most famous microblogging social network on the planet. Exactly, in the minutes after, exactly at 10:35 pm, according to the official Twitter account, 8,868 tweets were generated per second.
In this way, the singer's news surpassed other historical moments in this social network, such as the catastrophe in Japan that occurred in March of this year, which generated 5,530 tweets per second, the celebration of the new year in the country of the rising sun. with 6,939 tweets to the second and the final of the women's soccer world cup with 7,196 tweets per second.
