Top Tweets per second
By Asha

Twitter, as part of its Year in Review series, today released its chart for the top Tweets Per Second (TPS) of 2011.   And surpassing Bin Laden’s death, near miss nuclear disaster in Japan, royal wedding and anything in India was the MTV awards ceremony

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Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement on MTV's Video Music Awards in August broke the record for the highest TPS spike of all time: nearly 9,000 Tweets per second. Live sporting events accounted for six out of the top 16 TPS spikes, with the final game of the Women’s FIFA World Cup holding the TPS record for sports. Hard news, including word of Troy Davis’ execution (7,671 TPS) and Steve Jobs’ resignation (7,064 TPS), round out the list.
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All the details are at this Twitter chart