Comments on: World Cup sends shocks through Twitter, Facebook

By: Twitter sets up shop in Brazil, a region with lots of potential | ImpressiveNews

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:18:34 +0000

[...] area — the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Traditionally, these types of events set new “tweets per second” records, as Twitter has pointed out many times in the [...]

By: Twitter sets up shop in Brazil, a region with lots of potential | VentureBeat

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:53:53 +0000

[...] — the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Traditionally, these types of events set new “tweets per second” records, as Twitter has pointed out many times in the [...]

By: What’s coming next for Twitter: fewer fail whales, more users, more ads | VentureBeat

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:52:51 +0000

[...] the World Cup last summer, Costolo said Twitter saw a record-setting 3,300 tweets per second. However, at the time, “We were throwing fail whales way too often,” Costolo continued. [...]