Beyonce's Pregnancy Breaks Twitter Record

First Posted: 30/08/11 10:18 BST Updated: 29/10/11 11:12 BST

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Beyonce’s baby revelation at the VMAs over the weekend produced Twitter's highest ever tweet per second rate. Some 8,868 tweets per second appeared on the subject of the Destiny's Child star's baby bump, beating Osama bin Laden’s death as trending news.

The jubilant explosion of tweets using the hash tag #VMA demonstrates just how crucial social media policy is for any business, and how MTV know how to harness its power.

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On the VMAs, a woman cradled her abdomen and revealed the life growing there. By extension, unmarried mothers were inundated with presumptuous gloating.