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News of singer Whitney Houston’s death spread like wildfire on Twitter since the news broke with a tweet from Associated Press at 4.57 pm. AP’s tweet was retweeted over 10,000 times. After posting the story on our Hot 1079 Facebook fan page, we received nearly 300 likes in under a hour. The first full hour after the news broke saw 2,481,652 tweets and retweets, peaking at 61,227 tweets at 5.23 pm (all times are PST). That is over a thousand tweets a second, not quite as much as during the Superbowl but still a lot. The most retweeted article after the news broke was from MSNBC, with 13 thousand tweets linking to it. Friends, musicians and celebrities tweeted out their condolences, each of them getting retweeted thousands of times: Rapper Lil Wayne has the record, with over 29,000 retweets as of the time of writing this post. Others who were widely retweeted include: Justin Bieber ( 15,000 ), Nicki Minaj ( 8,739 ), Katy Perry ( 8,394 ), Mariah Carey ( 6,305 ) and Christina Aguillera ( 4,321 ). Hundreds of thousands of people mourned her passing away, posting to Twitter links to over 3,000 video recordings of Whitney Houston’s songs. These stats’ are courtesy of Topsy.com. Our Digital Team Dedicating Hotspotatl.com to #WhitneyHouston instagr.am/p/G4_yNVvYbI/ — Hot 1079 Atl Hip Hop (@hot1079atl) February 12, 2012 Whitney Houston Dead At 48 [BREAKING NEWS] ow.ly/9161E Let’s Celebrate her life! ow.ly/916ho — Hot 1079 Atl Hip Hop (@hot1079atl) February 12, 2012 Related: Whitney Houston Dead At 48
2.5 Million Tweets An Hour As News of Whitney Houston’s Death Spreads
