Twitter: Life, Death & Soccer Get Most Tweets Per Second In 2011

Dec 6, 2011 at 6:10pm ET by Greg Finn

Today Twitter announced the Top Tweets per Second in 2011, part of its ongoing Year In Review. Back in October we complied a list at Search Engine Land, which is strikingly still similar.

The top Twitter events displayed in “tweets per second” (or TPS) for 2011 were:

8,868 TPS: MTV Video Awards (Beyonce announces pregnancy) – August 28th
7,671 TPS: Troy Davis execution – September 20th
7,196 TPS: End of FIFA Women’s World Cup – July 17th
7,166 TPS: Brazil elimination from the Copa America – July 17th
7,064 TPS: Steve Jobs’s resignation from Apple – August 25th
6,939 TPS: New Years – Jan 1st
6,436 TPS: BET Awards – June 27th
6,303 TPS: UEFA Champions League – May 28th
6,049 TPS: Steve Jobs death – October 6th
5,531 TPS: NBA Finals – June 14th

For those that enjoy comparing the popularity of sports around the world, here are the major sports milestones from 2011:

7,196 TPS: End of FIFA Women’s World Cup – July 17th
7,166 TPS: Brazil elimination from the Copa America – July 17th
6,303 TPS: UEFA Champions League – May 28th
5,531 TPS: NBA Finals – June 14th
4,064 TPS: Superbowl - February 6th

Sorry NHL and MLB, you were the only main American professional sports organizations that didn’t make the cut.

Out of all the results on this list I was surprised that the death Muammar Gaddafi didn’t make this list. Truly a news-worthy world event, the death of this leader couldn’t top Beyonce’s baby announcement … or even make a blip on its radar.

For more information see the full graphic on Twitter.

About The Author: Greg Finn is the Director of Marketing for Cypress North, a company that specializes in social media and search marketing services and web-based application development. He has been in the Internet marketing industry for 6+ years and specializes in Social Media Marketing. You can also find Greg on Twitter (@gregfinn) or LinkedIn. See more articles by Greg Finn

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