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by mmx 5008 days ago
I'm not sure a tweet metric like that means much once you realize the news "Beyoncé Reveals Baby Bump" resulted in 8,868 tweets a second, which is about 10.6 million tweets every 20 minutes. Running some quick numbers, the debate averaged about 1,962 tweets a second over 90 minutes.