Year Of the Dragon Breaks Twitter’s Record
Twitter recently trumpeted its record of 25,088 tweets per second but this weekend’s Chinese New year celebrations led to 481,207 messages being sent via the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo in the first minute of the new Year of he Dragon, an average of 32,312 messages each second.
Do News reports that the microblogging site’s traffic was treble that of last Chinese New Year, which tallies well with a recent article on the China Network Information Services that Weibo experienced 298% growth in 2011.
Around 50% of all Chinese net users are signed up with a microblogging service. Sina Weibo has 250 million users, of whom approximately 100 million are active daily, while Tencent Weibo, its chief competitor, has 300 million signed-up users.
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