Twitter Record Broken During World Cup 2010

Two major sporting events this week have helped Twitter Inc. to reach all-time records for tweets, the San Francisco microblogging service said Friday.

The 2010 World Cup soccer tournament has elevated Twitter traffic overall, but a record was set Monday when tweets were sent at a rate of 2,940 per second just 30 seconds after the Japanese team scored its only goal in a 1-0 victory over Cameroon, spokesman Sean Garrett said.

That record, however, was short-lived. Thursday night, traffic spiked to 3,085 tweets per second as basketball fans weighed in on the Los Angeles Lakers finishing off the Boston Celtics to clinch pro basketball’s world championship.

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