Sina Weibo breaks Twitter's record of posts per second

Sina Weibo, a popular microblog in China has overtaken Twitter in number of posts sent per second. According to Chinese news site, DoNews, Sina Weibo is the second largest microblog in China with 250 million users and it is the most used of all microblogs in China with 100 million visitors on the site everyday. Twitter has a comparable active user base at 100 million, though as of 2011, it had 300 million registered users. Sina Weibo saw a record number of posts sent per second on Monday. The posts were related to Chinese New Year. The site saw 32,312 posts sent per second. Meanwhile, Twitter's record is 25,088 tweets per second, which were sent in Japan last December, during a screening on TV of an anime movie, Castles in the Sky. On the 31st of December, Twitter crashed with 16,197 tweets sent per second in Japan for New Year's Eve.

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