How The Death Of Osama Bin Laden Broke On “Twitter”.

A 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.

·         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.

·         "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.

·         At the peak of this online conversation, Twitter users posted 5,106 tweets per second, according to the company.

·         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."