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"Throngs of Twitter users logged on to the site during the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, with over 10,000 tweets sent every second in the moments after Adele won Record of the Year.\nTwitter wrote via a blog post on Wednesday that a whopping 10,901 tweets were sent each second after the soulful singer raked in her sixth Grammy award. This was the most tweeted moment of the night, as many quoted her charming acceptance and emotional acceptance speech and commented on her award sweep. \nTweets about the Grammys started to pick up hours before the broadcast and lasted long after the show wrapped, Twitter said. In fact, \u201CGrammys\u201D was mentioned in more than 5 million Tweets on Sunday between noon and midnight PT. \nNot surprisingly, tweets about Whitney Houston \u2014 who was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room just a day before the Grammys \u2014 also made the rounds online. Houston was the fifth most frequently mentioned artist during that 12-hour period. \nThe most-mentioned artists during that time was @OfficialAdele (no. 1), @ChrisBrown (no. 2), @NickiMinaj (no. 3) and @Rihanna (no. 4).\n\nSEE ALSO: Social Media Helps Grammys Achieve Huge Ratings in Broadcast and Social TV\nAccording to Bluefin Labs, the Grammys earned 13 million social comments across all social networks. That breaks the record from last week\u2019s Super Bowl and dwarfs every other entertainment event from the last year.\nThe Grammys wasn't just a hit on Twitter \u2014 it attracted 39.9 million TV viewers, making it the second-largest audience ever and the best ratings since 1984, according to CBS.\nSocial media monitoring company NetBase ran sentiment analysis on the Twitter chatter surrounding the show and found that Adele was the most mentioned celebrity with positive sentiment from Feb. 11 \u2013 13. Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj had the most negative sentiment, followed by Chris Brown.\nHowever, negative sentiment regarding Chris Brown picked up steam on Tuesday night when he tweeted \u2014 and then deleted \u2014 a series of messages addressing all of his \"haters\" (shown below).\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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