Bin Laden’s Death Shatters Super Bowl Record on Twitter

Twitter has reported a new record for the highest sustained rate of tweets between 10:45 p.m. Sunday and 2:20 a.m. Monday. The news of the killing of Osama bin Laden generated an average of 3,000 tweets per second, peaking at 5,106 tweets per second at 11 p.m. — while this year’s Super Bowl, which previously held the sustained tweets record, saw 3,000 tweets per second for only 20 minutes.

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