3,440 tweets per second on average – a new record of service Twitter, which was beaten from 10:45 pm to 12:30 pm on May 2 to Eastern Time in connection with information about the elimination of Osama bin Laden, leader of the largest terrorist organization Al-Qaeda near the Pakistani capital. At the peak moment number of tweets per second reached 5,106.
The previous record of Twitter has been linked with the tragic events – an earthquake and tsunami in Japan, while the peak figure was even higher – 5,530 per second.
The news of the death of Bin Laden has broken all records in Twitter
For the first time entire request list in the Google Hot Trends service referred to the same news – the death of Bin Laden (about himself, about his leadership of a terrorist organization, the search for publications about him in authoritative sources, etc.).
Here is the complete list of requests by the United States, made on May 1 in the form of a screenshot by Danny Sullivan, the editor of Searchengineland .
The news of the death of Bin Laden has broken all records in Google
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