{"id":13347,"date":"2010-06-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T21:00:00","slug":"twitter-at-record-high-with-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/13347-twitter-at-record-high-with-world-cup.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter at record high with World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winning spike in tweets came right after a referee&#8217;s whistle ended a Thursday match in which Japan beat Denmark 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>The previous &#8220;tweets-per-second&#8221; record of 3,085 was set last week after the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics in the final game of US National Basketball Association championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continued to see big spikes in Tweets following goals in the World Cup,&#8221; Twitter said in a message announcing the new &#8216;TPS&#8217; record.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of tweeting typically averages 750-per-second, according to the San Francisco based startup.<\/p>\n<p>The micro-blogging service has exploded in popularity since it was launched in March 2006 and Twitter chief operating officer Dick Costello said recently that it now attracts 190 million visitors a month.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Twitter warned users to expect outages as it copes with the heavy traffic during the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?244607-Twitter-hits-record-levels-with-World-Cup\">Twitter and the World Cup<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter said Friday that World Cup football kicked the number of &quot;tweets&quot; fired off at the micro-blogging service to a record high of 3,085 per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}