Brazil and Germany break Twitter record

Date: 10th July 2014 at 2:04pm
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The World Cup semi-final between Brazil and Germany has broken the record for the most people discussing a sporting event on Twitter.

The game itself was won by Germany by hammering their hosts 7-1 to reach the World Cup final where they will play Argentina, who are bidding for their third World Cup.

It was easily the most talked about event on the social network with 35.6 million tweets generated in relation to one of the most incredible games in the tournament’s history.

That smashed the previous record of 24.9 million which was set earlier this year on February 2 for the American football showpiece, the Super Bowl.

The peak of the tweets was reached for the fifth goal of the game, scored by Sami Khedira on 29 minutes, which unbelievably recorded more than 580,000 tweets per minute.

According to Twitter Data, the two most mentioned players were Miroslav Klose and Julio Cesar.

 

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