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Twitter indicates that there were 10,000 tweets per second during the final three minutes of last night’s Superbowl.

This is a huge jump from last year’s Superbowl, which saw a high of 4,064 tweets per second.

Here are some other notable events and their corresponding tweets per second, as reported by TechCrunch.

• Premiere of Japanese movie “Castles in the Sky:” 25,088
• New Year’s Eve 2011 in Japan: 6,939
• Steve Jobs’ death: 6,049
• The Japanese earthquake and tsunami: 5,530
• Bin Laden’s death: 5,106
• The Royal wedding in England: 3,966 TPS.

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Yesterday Jeremy Clarkson, host of popular BBC car show Top Gear, told the BBC’s One Show that he would shoot the UK’s two million striking public sector workers “in front of their family” (check that video HERE).

As you can imagine, not everyone was best pleased with these comments, especially given that Clarkson is thought to make around $3 million a year from Top Gear and associated ventures.

Now the BBC has received almost 4,700 complaints from viewers, and trade union Unison has called for his sacking.

Some call for his sacking

While others defended him

Others were simply bemused

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New figures from Sainsbury’s Bank suggest that nearly two million credit card holders intend to switch providers over the next year, when their 0 per cent balance transfer offer expires.

A further 900,000 card holders will switch when their 0 per cent purchase deal expires, according to the bank’s latest research.

After the introductory offer on these cards ends, the percentage rate charge rises to 18.2 per cent on average while the APR on new purchases rises to around 18 per cent, so it’s hardly surprising that customers chose to move their business elsewhere.

There are several cards offering a much more competitive rate including Sainsbury’s card at 6.9 per cent and Barclaycard at 7.9 per cent, while many customers are likely to take up a new 0 per cent balance transfer deal.

However, significantly fewer people will be using a credit card to pay for Christmas this year, according to new research by Legal & General.

Around a third of households paid for Christmas with credit cards last year, but this number is expected to drop to a fifth this year.

With increasing pressure on household incomes coming for all directions, a third of households are planning to spend less on gifts this year, according to the Money Mood survey of 1,000 adults.

Sixty-seven per cent said they had enough money put aside for Christmas, while in the London and West Midlands, just 60 per cent of people said they had enough money saved for the festive season.

People in the north of England are the best prepared, with 79 per cent saying they had saved enough money to pay for what they need, while in Wales and Scotland the figures fell to 72 per cent and 68 per cent respectively.

The housing market in England and Wales is “in broad equilibrium” despite prices continuing to edge lower, according to Hometrack, which recorded a 0.1% fall in the value of the typical dwelling in July, compared with June. However, there are wide regional variations: prices moved higher across 8% of postcodes (primarily in London) and were [...]

Latest figures from the Land Registry show house prices in England and Wales falling by 1.1% in March, marking the largest monthly decline seen since February 2009. The only region to experience a monthly rise was the North West, with an upward movement of 0.7%, while in Wales house prices tumbled by 3.3%, compared with [...]