| According to the Twitter Japan official account, the "Balus!" tweet frenzy by audience members in Japan watching the rerun of the Ghibli anime film "Castle in the Sky" on NTV again set the new Twitter world record of the highest number of tweets per second (TPS). At a gasping 143,199 TPS, the record was made at 11:21:50pm JST on August 2nd when the anime reached the scene where the two lead characters, Sheeta and Pazu, chanted the spell "Balse" to destroy the flying castle Laputa. The practice has been going on for every rerun of the film since 2009. It set a world record back on December 9, 2011 with 25,088 TPS, though later it was superseded by other occasions. Before the film rerun on August 2nd, the record, at 33,388 TPS, was held by the tweeting of the new year congratulation message "AkeOme" in Japan as midnight struck on January 1st this year. Related article: 'Balus!' Tweets by Audience of Castle in the Sky Set a New World Record Sources: Twitter Japan, ITmedia |
NaruleachAug 7, 2013 9:45 PM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Heh. Nice. They did it again, and far surpassed the previous run... |
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| First time I hear about this. Totally awesome! GuiltyKing said: I guess it's time to watch those classics already. You should watch them now :) |
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| Ok this is fucking creepy I literally JUST finished watching that movie for the first time just now. ._. but uh anyways that's really incredible. |
| Can we have the link to that tweet? |
| Balus! |
VioLinkAug 6, 2013 1:35 PM
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| Thanks for spoiling the movie symbz! Damn you! lol but this is a weird tradition. |
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| Haha that's awesome! |
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| Thats awesome!! Wonder what the TV ratings were, must've been pretty high |
jugann said: Yup, it's damn high. 18.5%Thats awesome!! Wonder what the TV ratings were, must've been pretty high |
| MPH, kb/s, mb/s, WPM, and now TPS joins the group... am I pleased or not |
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GuiltyKing said: I guess it's time to watch those classics already. I'm thinking about watching them later this year. |
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symbv said: Related article: 'Balus!' Tweets by Audience of Castle in the Sky Set a New World Record Oh, it happened again? I forgot about it when I read this news before. |
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Ghostbooster said: Japanese are better than us, here people just complain about who better Naruto or one piece, what a fu*king joke Cause we all know it's Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers) (^ ^ ) |
| Muska was trending too, for a quite a while. SO that's what it was (Lol). You're fun, Japan! |
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| And twitter recorded and updated 143,199 TPS + Many Many more. Now that what you call servers. Here we're sitting in the line for groceries, i mean stats updates. |
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| Dang, that's impressive. I wish America would have reruns like this all the time. |
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Downgrade355 said: It is in my first post in this thread. Check the link I provided as "Source". If you mean the actual "Balus" tweet then there are hundreds of thousands of them. You should just search for バルス in Twitter to find some of those tweets made at that night.Can we have the link to that tweet? |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Balus indeed, grats Japan. |
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| Interestingly enough, Twitter has buffed up their servers since the previous Laputa world record in 2011. The Japanese were really trying to down the servers again from the sheer amount of "バルス" tweets this year... but 143k+ TPS wasn't enough this time, haha. |
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| I guess those old school classic will never die |
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