Beyonce’s VMAS Pregnancy Reveal Breaks Twitter Records.

Beyonce revealed that she was pregnant Sunday night during MTV’s Celebrity Musicians Masturbating Other Celebrity Musicians Extravaganza. I knew this was enough to send fourteen year-old girls (or those stuck in that emotional state which is another 54% of our pop-culture HIVE MIND) into a tweeting frenzy. What I didn’t expect is that it would crush previous records of tweets. Per second. Per! Second!

Techcrunch:

Beyonce helped push Twitter to a new record in terms of Tweets per second yesterday evening when the pop singer announced her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards. According to Twitter, Beyonce’s big MTV #VMA moment gave Twitter a record bump: 8,868 Tweets per second.

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It’s a little surprising that baby news from a celebrity has taken the record for Tweets per Second. The previous TPS record holder took place during the final moments of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s game against Japan in July, with 7,196 Tweets per second.

In terms of past record events, Bin Laden’s death drew a significant peak in Tweets Per Second with 5,106 TPS. Super Bowl 2011 saw 4,064 TPS, and the all-time high was New Years Eve 2010 in Japan, which hit 6,939 TPS at its peak. On the day of the Japanese earthquake and Tsunami in March, Twitter usage reached 5,530 TPS. And during the Royal Wedding in England in April, Twitter reached a peak of 3,966 TPS.

Well there you go. Bin Laden, Earthquakes, all less OMGFAPSQUEE than Beyonce.