Twitter & The World Cup [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The year’s World Cup has broken many records. It isn’t just Waka Waka, that has become the most watched soccer video on YouTube. Twitter, too, has something to show off.

In a gorgeous infographic, the micro-blogging site showcased how tweet volume fluctuates throughout this wildly crazed tournament.

The record tweet per second rate was at 3283 TPS and interestingly, it happened during a game between Denmark and Japan, where Japan won 3-1. This has highlighted Twitter’s dominance as the top social-networking site in Japan.

Check out the infographic below:

Some other interesting statistics posted by Twitter include:

- The World Cup final represented the largest period of sustained activity for an event in Twitter’s history.

- Throughout the match, Tweets-per-second (TPS) were much higher than average; during the game’s final 15 minutes, this jumped to more than 2,000 TPS. (Spain’s winning goal in the final scored a 3,051 TPS.)

- During the final, people from 172 countries tweeted in 27 different languages.

- At the moment of the winning goal, people from 81 countries tweeted in 23 different languages.