Twitter recently released some statistics from 2011, regarding the number of tweets per second. Some of the events that generated the most tweets per second were:
- Japanese earthquake and tsunami (March): 5 530 tweets/second
- End of FIFA Women’s World Cup (July): 7 196 tweets/second
- MTV Video Music Awards (August): 8 868 tweets/second

Notably, Steve Jobs’ resignation from Apple generated more tweets per second than his actual passing away…
For the full list of topics, go
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