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Twitter sees new record during Euro 2012 final

Reported by MyNorthwest.com on Monday, 2 July 2012 (on July 2, 2012)
MyNorthwest.com
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Twitter says its users fired off more than 15,000 Tweets per second when Spain made its fourth goal in Sundays European Championship final, setting a new sports-related record on the social networking site. The surge in tweets came just weeks before the Olympics Games in London are expected to bring another unprecedented surge of activity by sports fans on social networking sites. Twitter says total global traffic on its platform peaked at 15,358 tweets per second during the fourth goal Sunday in Kiev, where Spain defeated Italy 4-0.

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