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10,000 Tweets Per Second Rang In New Year
- Red Rocket Media , Wednesday, January 2, 2013 3:07 PM
Micro-blogging site Twitter has unveiled how many messages were sent by its users across the world as people celebrated the new year, although the busiest area was something of a surprise. Whilst many had anticipated American or European markets to dominate (as they have some of the largest Twitter user totals), the highest total was seen in Asia, where a staggering 33,388 tweets were sent per second in the UTC+9 time zone when the clock struck midnight.
