Kanye West helps MTV VMA’s break Twitter record
Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards were the most-tweeted non-Super Bowl event in U.S. history.
21.4 million tweets were sent throughout the show and three hours on each side of the program. It was a 69% increase from last year’s awards which saw 12.6 million tweets.
Kanye West had the most popular moment, with 247,525 tweets after he announced he would run for President of the United States in 2020.