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.