Everyone knew that FIFA World Cup 2010 is world’s biggest tournament sporting event. Which is running in South Africa, has turned to the title of the most popular web event in the history of Internet. Its not surprising to see that Football fans stay up late to watch FIFA world cup.
At the same time, FIFA 2010 viewer are actively busy in posting tweets with its latest updates on twitter. In this week, Twitter has broken down the previous record number of tweets updating frequently during the match proceedings.
Generally 2 billion tweets are generating in a month which means – average 750 tweets per second but during the last couple of days new stats has been created. According to a report, Twitter has facing critical time to manage almost 3000 tweets per second.
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Approx 3000 tweets per sec signifies that it is defeating the title of president Obama’s election day. It shows that number of internet users keeps on growing with fastest speed every year.
Such sport events never gonna stop evolving and it has become a big challenge for twitter to manage more Tweets and more efficient approach to make its service better.
Wright! getting about 3K tweets per second must generate a huge pressure on their servers.
They must do something so that this doesn’t happen in the future
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It only happens once in four years.
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I’d say Twitter has done a pretty good job thus far.
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ya i agree with you, what you said was absolutely right.
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Thats huge. I wonder how many tweets were being handled during the cricket world cup? It must have been lesser than the FIFA world cup though.
I can’t wait until there’s a way to blow a vuvuzela via twitter.