New Delhi

Twitter on Tuesday said that the platform saw a record number of tweets and conversations after the passing away of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 at the age of 96.

Since the Queen's passing, there have been over 30.2 million tweets about the Queen.

The day of the announcement on September 8 was the highest volume of conversation ever seen on the micro-blogging platform.

"On September 8, there were over 11.1 million tweets about the Queen, with @RoyalFamily being the 4th most globally mentioned handle," said the micro-blogging platform.

There were over 1 million tweets about queues and the #1 hashtag within this conversation was #queueforthequeen.

 "The top Retweeted Tweet so far has been The Royal Family's announcement of the Queen's death," said the company.

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