On August 28th, 2011, Beyonce Knowles announced her pregnancy after her performance at MTV’s Video Music Awards. This announcement set off a tweeting frenzy and apparently set a new Twitter record with 8,868 tweets per second (TPS), surpassing the previous record set by the US Women’s Soccer team game against Japan earlier that summer.
And on Saturday, January 7, 2012, Twitterverse exploded again with the news that Beyonce’s baby was born. Searching Visible Intelligence® the day after the birth, it appears tweets started coming in at 8:00PM (PT), and then once confirmed, the biggest spike occurred at around 11:00 PM (PT). The mostly neutral tweets rushed in as people shared the news. Delighted tweets were expressed along with negative ones—one in particular upset that the couple reportedly paid $1.3 million to reserve an entire hospital floor.

The baby girl’s name was also a hot topic on Twitter. Initial reports, confirmed by the prominent terms listed below, had the baby’s name as Ivy Blue. Read more…
Twitter explodes again at birth of Beyonce’s baby!
Posted by Ellen Enrico on January 8, 2012And on Saturday, January 7, 2012, Twitterverse exploded again with the news that Beyonce’s baby was born. Searching Visible Intelligence® the day after the birth, it appears tweets started coming in at 8:00PM (PT), and then once confirmed, the biggest spike occurred at around 11:00 PM (PT). The mostly neutral tweets rushed in as people shared the news. Delighted tweets were expressed along with negative ones—one in particular upset that the couple reportedly paid $1.3 million to reserve an entire hospital floor.
The baby girl’s name was also a hot topic on Twitter. Initial reports, confirmed by the prominent terms listed below, had the baby’s name as Ivy Blue. Read more…