A din of tweets

Tue., July 3, 2012

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 site. 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 Sunday in Kiev, Ukraine, where Spain defeated Italy 4-0. It said total global traffic on its platform peaked at 15,358 tweets per second. – AP

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