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Pakistani IT consultant, educated in Preston, has become world famous after he
inadvertently live-tweeted the raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden.
At peak, Twitter users posted more than 5,100 messages per second
CNN) --
Online chatter about the death of Osama bin Laden was so intense on Sunday
night that Twitter set a new record.
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During President Barack Obama's address, Twitter
users posted messages at an average rate of 3,440 tweets per second, according
to the company's official public relations news feed.
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"Last night saw the highest sustained rate
of tweets ever. From 10:45 p.m. - 2:20 a.m. ET, there was an average of
3,000 tweets per second," the company wrote, before updating that
number to 3,440.
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At the peak of this online conversation, Twitter
users posted 5,106
tweets per second, according to the company.
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The fastest rate of tweeting ever occurred on
New Years Eve in Japan, when users posted 6,939 tweets per second, a measure of online conversation that
Twitter refers to, in all seriousness, as "TPS."
