Beyonce Shatters Twitter Record with Big Pregnancy Reveal

Celebrity Moms August 30, 2011 AT 5:51PM By UsWeekly Staff

Outside L.A.'s Nokia Theater at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce broke the major news to insiders that she's expecting her first child with husband Jay-Z.

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But it wasn't until she hit the stage later that night when the rest of the world was let in on the news.

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Moments after finishing her incredible "Love on Top" performance, the star, 29, ripped open her purple sequined D&G blazer to reveal her baby bump, which in turn shattered Twitter's record of the highest number of sent tweets per second.

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"Last night at 10:35pm ET, Beyonce's big MTV #VMA moment gave Twitter a record bump: 8,868 Tweets per second," the company's official handle @TwitterGlobalPR tweeted on Monday.

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The mass amount of 140 character-long messages wasn't the only way the Grammy-winning artist took over Twitter: "BEYONCE IS PREGNANT" turned into a huge Trending Topic and many fans changed their Twitter profile pic to photos of the songstress.

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Twitter's impressive stat comes as no surprise, since Sunday night's VMAs had the highest ratings for the award show ever. The Los Angeles Times reported that according to Nielson Co., the audience was up 9 percent compared to last year's VMAs: 12.4 million viewers tuned in, making it MTV's most-watched telecast ever.

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August 31, 2011 - 7:53am Rosemarie Mello
Most watched ever!!!!! I didn't watch
August 30, 2011 - 11:28pm Tammy Lynn
well this sure peed off KIM Kardashin IM sure. Beyonce upstaged her & I love it.. the next day who is all about babies???? well kim of course.. her BFF said KIM wants lots of babies.. Anyone watching this Kim game.. she copies everyone if you do it she is sure to do it or try it to be better.. sad actually to watch with being consumed for attention
August 30, 2011 - 7:59pm Brea Cairo
gorgeous. I love her, a class act.
August 30, 2011 - 7:06pm Cameron Salvant
hi kool guyyyyyy!!hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee is awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
August 30, 2011 - 6:34pm Samantha Evans
Ugh if it was the highest rated show ever they will continue with the horribleness of it. Hopefully there is some poll out there that shows them that even though it was the most watched it was also the worst EVER
August 30, 2011 - 6:25pm Jill Switzer
when is her due date