Twitter Traffic Triples During Video Music Awards

While show was live, 1.3 Million tweets referenced the VMAs.By Kyle Anderson Kanye West crashes the VMA stage as Taylor Swift accepts the award for best female video on Sunday Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic Because the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards were the first of the Twitter era, MTV had to take a unique approach to the micro-blogging service during the broadcast. Video blogger Justine Ezarik — known to the Internet world as iJustine — came onboard to be our Twitter corr...

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