Superbowl notes record messages on Twitter

More than 12,233 messages per second were posted on Twitter shortly after the Superbowl, the finale of American football, played on Sunday night, recording the new record for a sporting event, said Monday that the social network.

    The New York Giants won by 21-17 in an exciting match that was decided only in the final minutes.

   During the interval, had a presentation of the Madonna, the number of tweets peaked at 10,245 per second.(video down).

     The previous record for a sporting event was recorded in July last year, with 7,196 messages per second, during the World Cup final soccer, in Germany, when the Japanese selection surprised everyone by defeating the United States.

Other ranks :

   The absolute record is 25,088 tweets per second for broadcast on Japanese television movie "Castle in the Sky", animated by director Hayao Miyazaki.

   Another event that wowed the twitters "was the announcement of Beyonce's pregnancy in August of last year, with about 9,000 messages per second.

  The more than 100 million social network users have published about 60 billion tweets in 2011