Japanese Soccer Fans Break Twitter Record
Apparently Japanese soccer fans recently broke the global record for the most-ever tweets per second:
In the small hours following the Samurai Blue’s surprise, but comprehensive 3-1 victory over Denmark June 25, Japanese fans were most visible pouring onto the sidewalks of Shibuya crossing, the congested pedestrian crosswalk in Tokyo made famous by the 2003 movie Lost in Translation.
Less obvious – Japan fans diving into their Twitter accounts. According to Twitter, the average numbers of tweets in the 30 seconds after the final whistle spiked at an intense 3,283 tweets per second, or tps. The average number is 750 tps. To put that in perspective, the number tops the previous record of 3,085 tps set when the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA Championship the previous week, according to Twitter.
Related reading: The Mainichi has an article about Twitter and politics in Japan.
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