Twitter spiked with 5,106 tweets per second at 11 p.m. ET last night, decreasing slightly to 5,008 tweets when Obama finished up his live statement, according to Twitter. That’s not a record — the number to beat was 6,939 tweets per second just after midnight on New Year’s Eve in Japan. (For context, the Super Bowl hit 4,064 tweets per second.)
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But Twitter did set a record of “sustained tweets.” An average of 3,000 tweets per second were sent over several hours from 10:45 p.m. to 2:20am ET., as thousands of people shared the news and celebrated in the streets. All in all, a big moment for Twitter.
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