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Final World Cup Game Shatters Social Media
- Computer Business Review, Monday, July 14, 2014 2:35 PM
The final of the 2014 World Cup broke all existing record to become the most popular sporting event in both Facebook and Twitter history, the social media sites have revealed. The match between Germany and Argentina spawned a total of 32.1m tweets over the course of its broadcast, with an incredible 618,725 tweets per minute being recorded as the final whistle sounded. This took it past the previous record of 580,166 tweets per minute, which followed Germany's fifth goal against Brazil in the semi-finals.
