Beyoncé’s Baby Bump Reveal Sparks Twitter Record

Associated Press
5:31 am, Wednesday, 08/31/2011
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Beyoncé’s pregnant performance at the MTV Video Music Awards sparked a Twitter record.

When Beyoncé performed at 10:35 p.m. EDT Sunday night, there were 8,868 tweets per second. Twitter said that rate was a record for the service.

At the VMAs, Beyoncé revealed a baby bump, cupping her growing belly for photographers as she arrived and rubbing her tummy when she performed. The 29-year-old singer is married to Jay-Z.

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performs at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.

The VMAs drew MTV’s biggest audience since the network began measuring its viewership. Sunday night’s show attracted 12.4 million viewers.