Japan breaks Twitter record with 6,939 tweets per second over New Year

Over the New Year celebrations, Japan broke a Twitter record just four seconds after midnight on the 1st of January 2011, with 6,939 tweets per second (TPS). That's more than double the previous record of 3,283TPS, also set by the Japanese nation in their defeat of Denmark in last year's World Cup. Japan a country of over 127 million people, the tenth largest population in the world, likes to share the love over the New Year with calls and messages to family and friends, often pushing their mobile networks to breaking point. It seems this year, Twitter took part of that strain.

Of course Japan wasn't the only country revealing in the New Year celebrations on Twitter. As the midnight hour passed in each timezone, Twitter saw a spike in tweets, with the East coast of the US alone accounting for more than 3,000TPS. Hit the break for Twitter's time-lapse video visualization of all the New Year tweeting action.

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