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The CDT New Year’s Gala

China celebrated the start of the Year of the Dragon with the customary televisual extravaganza and barrage of fireworks, as well as a less traditional burst of record-breaking microblog traffic. 481,207 messages were posted to Sina Weibo in the first minute after midnight, the average of 32,312 per second easily beating Twitter’s month-old record of 25,088 tweets per second set during a TV screening