Tweets-Don’t-Lie :: Beyonce’s Baby Announcement More Popular Than Bin Laden’s Death
The PR folks from Twitter are reporting that Beyonce’s baby announcement, at the VMA’s on Sunday, was historical in the twitter universe. After she made the announcement, twitter set a record of 8,868 tweets per second. Wondering what else that beat out? The Women’s World Cup and Osama bin Laden’s death. According to @MTVPress, the 2011 VMAs scored the biggest television audience in MTV’s history with 12.4 million total viewers. That’s a breakthrough and a record for the 30-year-old network. Peep the full story here.