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#HoustonDeathTwitterReaction

The news of Whitney Houston’s death was tweeted by a twitter user first, 27 minutes before the media broke out the news.
Approximately 2.5 million tweets and retweets occurred in the first hour, amounting to more than 1,000 tweets a second.
The news of Houston’s death peaked at 5:23 p.m. PT with 61,227 tweets in that minute.
Is Twitter the future of breaking news?

Related: #ThePowerOfSocialMedia

This was written by David. Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, at 9:32 am. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged #Twitter, social media, Whitney Houston. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.