One of Japan's favorite anime traditions has once again broken Twitter's record for most simultaneous tweets on a single topic. The August 3rd screening of Laputa: Castle in the Sky drew in 143,199 tweets per second at its peak — which is a carefully coordinated outcry of "Balse!" in sync with the film's climactic scene. It's a remarkable cultural phenomenon, to be sure, but it's also a great illustration of Twitter's exponential growth: back in December 2011, the same event set Twitter's record at 25,088 tweets per second.
Twitter's Raffi Krikorian has taken to the company's blog to both celebrate the new record and explain how it was that the new spike from Castle in the Sky didn't bring the network down. For his team, Twitter's...
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