Keiko Tanaka · August 2013

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Keiko Tanaka · August, 2013

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Japanese Users Break Tweets Per Second Record

Japan's netizens broke the world record for tweets per second on August 2, 2013, flooding Twitter with the magic word “balse” [バルス] from the 1986 anime film Castle In the...

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4 August 2013

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Keiko Tanaka · August, 2013

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Japanese Users Break Tweets Per Second Record

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