Twitter’s night as record numbers tweet during first leader debate

More than 184,396 tweets were sent last night during the UK’s first televised leader debates as tens of thousands more logged onto Facebook’s groaning servers, blogs and ITV’s website.

The number of tweets sent blew the 11,000 who tweeted during the #AsktheChancellors earlier debate away, but although the chatter was fast and furious with the average frequency of tweets standing at 29.06 per second in all the total numbers of tweeters was 36,483. Read More »