Beyonce Pregnant: New Twitter Record Set After Baby News

Beyonce's pregnancy announcement set an all time twitter record, then her performance topped her previously set twitter record, with an all time high of 8,868 tweets per second.
Previous twitter all time high record holders.
  • 7,196 tweets were sent per seond during the Women’s World Cup final between Japan and the United States in July.
  • 7,166 tweets per second were sent when Brazil lost to Paraguay in the Copa America.
  • 6,939 tweets per second when Tokyo rang in the New Year.
  • 5,530 tweets per second were sent after the March 11th earthquake that rocked Japan.
  • More than 5,000 tweets per second were sent after Osama Bin Laden’s death.