WTF: Beyonce’s Pregnancy Announcement Sets New Twitter Record

evolveteam August 30, 2011 0

Everyone has been laying in the cut for a while, anticipating Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement. She finally revealed it at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards and the Twitterverse going bonkers: setting the new record for the most tweets sent per second. What’s the count? 8,868. The soon-to-be mother dethroned the 2011 Women’s World Cup Soccer Finals as the most tweeted topic of discussion, previously holding the title at 7,196 tweets per second, along with other global events such as the Royal Wedding and Osama Bin Laden’s death. There’s not stopping Mrs. Carter.