The new rate shatters the last record noted by Twitter: 33,388 tweets-per-second during this past New Years Day.

So was it just natic ns or perhaps the curse of the Ghibli Rule that boosted the number of tweets that teful day? Either way, Twitter is just happy it didnt have a il whale moment, despite having to handle 25 times the normal rates of tweets at once.

The Ghibli offering most deadly to markets is thought to be the one coming up on Friday: Castle in the Sky, or Laputa, as it is known in Japan. In the film, the protagonists send the citys airborne fortress tumbling out of the sky with the magic word, balus which roughly translates to destruction.

Twitter revealed a new tweet-per-second record on Friday and it seems the 143,199 tweets-per-second milestone was triggered by the airing of a Japanese animated film.

The August 2 broadcast of Hayao Miyazakis Castle in the Sky, which happens in Japan routinely, led to the latest all-time one-second record. The volume dwarfs Twitters average load of about 500 million tweets a day and 5 Social Networking,700 tweets a second.

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The Wall Street Journal published a related piece on Aug. 1. The article noted that when the periodical airing of films from the Studio Ghibli, the studio that made Castle in the Sky, coincides with the release of the U.S. jobs data, bad things happen to the stock market.

It also mentioned that traders expected the Aug. 2 screening to be an especially bad incident:

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Castle in the Sky movie poster.

During this spike, our users didnt experience a blip on Twitter. Thats one of our goals: to make sure Twitter is always available no matter what is happening around the world, according to Twitters blog post.

Kotaku noted that ns were organizing the massive flash-tweet beforehand by posting on bulletin boards and Twitter.

So strong is the pull of Laputa--even apart from the Ghibli Rule--that during the last airing on Dec. 9, 2011, Twitter logged a then-record-breaking 25,088 tweets per second of ns posting balus at the same time it was spoken during the moviSocial Networking This crazy Japanese film just blew away Twitters tweet recorde--despite a public plea from the social-networking site to hold off.

Tweeters send out 143,199 tweets-per-second during the airing of the animated Japanese film Castle in the Sky earlier this month, according to Twitter.

Donna TamDonna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merry, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newss, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.

This wasnt the first time Castle in the Sky blew up Twitter. It also broke the record in December of 2011 when 25,088 tweets-per-second were hitting the Twittersphere.

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