Whether you tuned into the Super Bowl yesterday in spite of the sophisticated online analytic prediction that the New England Patriots would beat the New York Giants or just to see Madonna’s half-time mini concert, it seems you were logged into your Twitter account and duly reporting the developments.
According to Mashable.com, the game’s finale, in which the underdog Giants held on to beat the Pats 21-17, garnered 12,233 tweets per second (TPS). Madonna’s half-time show was tweeted at a rate of 10,245 TPS.
These tweets per second ranked numbers two and three, respectively on the all-time TPS list, which begs the question, what other world event has occurred that could possibly have topped either of these for G-Men or Material Girl fans?
Fortunately, it was not the Tim Tebow overtime touchdown pass a couple of weeks ago (which is number four in TPS on the list). The number one TPS event occurred over the buzz created by an anime movie. In December 2011, the Japanese TV screening of a 1986 movie Castle in the Sky generated 25,088 TPS.
Sources: Mashable.com and MediaBistro
Kathy Drasky regularly writes about online culture. Her marketing and communications work with the ANZA Technology Network, Advance Global Australians and with various Australians and Australian enterprises has led to at least a dozen trips Down Under.
An accomplished digital photographer, her photos have appeared in 7×7 Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Schmap.
