New all-time record set on Twitter of 3.4 million visits, driven by riots in England

Tue, 2011-08-09 14:57 - By

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With the recent riots spreading across London, Twitter has seen an enormous uptake in traffic among British online users. Experian Hitwise reports within the three days of violence, UK visits to Twitter were so frequent that a new all-time record was set.

As reported by Experian Hitwise, Twitter accounted for one out of every 170 UK Internet visits on August 8 – approximately 3.4 million visits to Twitter.com – which beat the previous record that was set during the super-injunction scandal.