There Are 20 Million Tweets About the Hurricane (And Counting) By Sam Biddle Twitter decided the...

There Are 20 Million Tweets About the Hurricane (And Counting)

By Sam Biddle

Twitter decided the time is right to finally release some storm stats, and they are predictably mammoth:

According to the company,

There have been well over 20 million Tweets sent about the storm between Saturday, October 27th and today (November 1). That?s probably a conservative estimate as we only tracked Tweets with the terms ?sandy,? ?hurricane,? ?#sandy,? and ?#hurricane.?

That is, as they say, a lot of zee tweets. It also makes sense that cell usage spiked:

The number of times users in NYC loaded their home timeline from a mobile device peaked around 9pm on Monday night (approximately same time as ConEd explosion and resulting power outage), more than doubling the number from the previous 2 days.

But if you want to know whether more people tweeted furiously at the same time about Sandy compared to, say, pregnant?Beyonc?, you’ll have to keep wondering: “TPM [tweets per minute] isn’t a really useful metric,” explains Twitter’s Rachael Horwitz. “We use that for live, televised events for example.” But Rachael,?did the storm beat?Beyonc??

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/m9QM3oSyBbk/34844604770

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