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A little birdy was telling me… Nearly a year ago the record for the most number of Tweets per second was set during the UEFA Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona at Wembley Stadium. On average during the game, 6,303 tweets were sent PER SECOND. This record surpassed the 5,530 tweets per second that were received during the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011. Since that day at Wembley the record has been broken on over a dozen occasions. But what is interesting is the events that have pushed the record upwards and how they reflect on the society we live in. Despite some historic events taking place in the world, the current top ten events are still dominated by sport and music. Take the death of ex-Apple CEO Steve Jobs in October 2011. Amazingly less people tweeted about this than his resignation a few months before. However, ...

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