'Twitteratti' set new record at Euro 2012
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July 3, 2012, Tuesday
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TWITTER says its users fired off more than 15,000 tweets per second when Spain scored its fourth goal in Sunday's European Championship final, setting a sports-related record on the social networking website.
The surge in tweets came just weeks before the Olympic Games in London are expected to spur more record-setting activity on social networking sites - from tweets to postings of photos and other user-generated material.
Twitter said it registered a total of 16.5 million tweets worldwide during the soccer match on Sunday in Kiev, Ukraine, where Spain defeated Italy 4-0.
The website said total global traffic on its platform peaked at 15,358 tweets per second as Spain scored its fourth goal, a record for a sporting event.
"Commentators, fans and athletes around the world supported their teams in song, in face paint and in tweets" throughout the Euro 2012, Twitter said in a blog.
Twitter registered a peak of 12,233 tweets per second during the final three minutes of the National Football League Super Bowl in February.
The surge in tweets came just weeks before the Olympic Games in London are expected to spur more record-setting activity on social networking sites - from tweets to postings of photos and other user-generated material.
Twitter said it registered a total of 16.5 million tweets worldwide during the soccer match on Sunday in Kiev, Ukraine, where Spain defeated Italy 4-0.
The website said total global traffic on its platform peaked at 15,358 tweets per second as Spain scored its fourth goal, a record for a sporting event.
"Commentators, fans and athletes around the world supported their teams in song, in face paint and in tweets" throughout the Euro 2012, Twitter said in a blog.
Twitter registered a peak of 12,233 tweets per second during the final three minutes of the National Football League Super Bowl in February.
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