Kobe's death has caused a massive surge in Twitter traffic. Currently there are over 250 tweets per second related to Kobe. This is the highest amount of traffic I've seen on Twitter for an event. Still collecting data. (incomplete data)
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There are currently two tweets setting new records. Kobe's last tweet and Obama's tweet mentioning Kobe's death.
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I can believe it -- right now this volume is around 10% of Twitter's total traffic.
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I have never, ever heard of this fella, nor has anyone I know. In the UK he's all over the news. Why? Who is he???
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He was a very special athlete, one of the greatest to touch the game of basketball, but he was more then the game of basketball he was a global icon, a great leader and an even better father. I can honestly say during his playing days I hated him because he would kill my teams
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