Women’s World Cup Final - Something to Tweet About

If you Tweeted during the final match of the Women’s World Cup this past Sunday, you were not alone. In fact you were part of history. The Women’s World Cup game drove a new record high Tweets Per Second (TPS). Twitter announced on its own Twitter account @twitter, “New Tweets per second records! End of the #WWC final: 7196 TPS. And today's end to the Paraguay/Brazil game is now 2nd with 7166 TPS.”

For those who tuned into the game, there was plenty to write about. Fans saw the excitement of the US gaining and losing two different leads, going to overtime and the game ending dramatically with penalty kicks finally determining Japan as the winners. Ironically, the previous record of Tweets Per Second was reached in March 2011; 5,000 TPS in the moments following Japan's earthquake and tsunami. While a disappointing ending for the US, it is great to see the subject of ‘Japan’ trump its own sad record with one of happiness. Ref. yahoo.com, picture ref. nutmegradio.com