How Twitter captures the heartbeat of current affairs

In 2008, the tweets per second record during the Super Bowl was 27. Four years and 12,206 more tweets per second later, the volume of Super Bowl-related Twitter activity is evidence of something more significant than a societal preoccupation with football’s greatest game or brands’ advertising gambles. A look at the escalation of tweets per second over the years tells us that Twitter has blossomed into the social network of record for current affairs. The visual proof, as seen... Continue reading »