14 DAY TRIAL // It took half a year, but Twitter managed to get the tweets per second record broken. The previous one was set during New Year's Day in Japan. The new record is also related to a world event and, obviously, to Japan, which loves Twitter.
The final of the Women's World Cup, between Japan and the US, which Japan won, measured 7,196 tweets per seconds, a new world record, Twitter revealed.
"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," Twitter announced.
The new record is yet another indication of a very clear trend at the site. On the one hand, Twitter is still growing fast, so these types of activity records will be broken once again, likely soon enough, during a major, global event or crisis.
The second thing to notice is that many previous records are related to Japan, indicating that users in the country are very engaged. Twitter caught on in Japan very early on, it had a Japanese version of the site years before any other language.
The previous standing record was set shortly after New Year's Day in Japan. There is a tradition in the country of reaching out to your friends and family during that time, but with phone lines crammed, many people took to Twitter for celebratory tweets.
The record before that was set during last year's World Cup as well. And, unsurprisingly, it was during a match that Japan was playing in. There were 3,283 tweets during the final moments of the Japan - Denmark.
The World Cup final didn't even manage to topple that, but it was the moment with the highest sustained tweet rate, of over 2,000 tweets per second. So, the next time Japan has an important football match, expect the Twitter usage record to be broken again.