Japanese hit a world Twitter record during the world cup soccer sending 3283 tweets a second

“ Twitter has been a huge hit in Japan. .... Japanese tweeters set a world record when the whistle blew in the World Cup game in which Japan beat Denmark at 3,283 tweets per second, mostly believed to have been Japanese...San Francisco-based Twitter Inc estimates Japanese send nearly 8 million tweets a day, about 12 percent of the global total.”




Source: Twitter CEO celebrates dramatic growth in Japan
Saturday 24th July, 2010
Japan Today
http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/twitter-ceo-celebrates-dramatic-growth-in-japan