Social Networking Stats: Twitter Sees Over 300 Million Tweets Around #WorldCup, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Twitter Sees Over 300 Million Tweets About #WorldCup (And Counting)

Twitter recently announced that in the first 15 days of the World Cup tournament, there have been over 300 million tweets related to #WorldCup. To help put this in perspective, Twitter recorded 160 million tweets (over 16 days) about the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In other words, the World Cup has already seen nearly double the amount of tweets from the 2012 Olympics.

Here are more fun Twitter facts around the #WorldCup:

• the opening match between Brazil and Croatia drove the most Twitter conversation, with 12.2 million tweets
• the most-tweeted moment was Brazil’s Marcelo scoring on team’s own goal
• the most-mentioned players are Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Neymar Jr.
• #USA and #BRA are the most used hashflags so far

Have you been tweeting about the #WorldCup?