a record breaking new year eve with twitter

Twitter A map shows a snapshot of Twitter messages sent on New Year’s Eve in the United States.

It didn’t take long for Twitter to break its own record as we rolled into 2011. The company said on Thursday that a mere four seconds after midnight in Japan, users set a new all-time record of the number of Tweets sent per second across the social network.

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During its peak on New Year’s Eve, Twitter users were sending 6,939 Tweets per second. That adds up to more than 400,000 Twitter messages sent during a single minute of the new year.

This new number shattered previous records of 3,283 Tweets sent per second, which were recorded during the Japanese versus Denmark game of the 2010 World Cup.

You can see a fascinating video on the official Twitter blog, which visualizes New Year’s Eve Tweets sent from around the world.