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Beyonce posts a video on Instagram promoting her surprise album, ‘Beyonce,’ released at midnight Friday. The album was a surprise and spontaneously caused a major spike on Twitter.
Just how fierce was the buzz surrounding Beyonce’s surprise album release?
Fiercer than a tornado full of Great White sharks, apparently.
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Mrs. Carter’s “BEYONCE” sparked more reaction on Twitter than the record-setting social media phenomenon surrounding Syfy’s “Sharknado” in July.
Beyonce fans generated more than 1.2 million Tweets in just 12 hours, including a “Tweets per minute” (TPM) spike of 5,300 — roughly 300 more than “Sharknado” notched during its peak halfway through its original telecast.
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Among those 1.2 million tweets were many of Beyonce’s peers, who bowed down before the queen.
“Don’t talk to me today unless it’s about @Beyonce THANX,” Katy Perry Tweeted.
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“X-Factor” judge Demi Lovato was “literally FUH-REAKING OUT” over the release.
“I CANT HANDLE THIS MUCH FIERCENESS…. #NOJOKE #DYING,” she told her 20.3 million Twitter followers.
As well as “BEYONCE” did on social media, it did even better in the most important metric – album sales. It was the most downloaded album Friday on iTunes, the only place fans could buy a copy.
