The social-media company said Wednesday that Tuesday’s Champions League semifinal second-leg match between Barcelona and Chelsea broke the tweets-per-second record for a sporting event.
Twitter said activity during the game — a 2-2 draw that saw Chelsea progress to the final after winning the first leg in London 1-0 — peaked at 13,684 messages per second. That beat out the previous record for a sporting event, the 12,233 tweets per second during the climax of February’s Super Bowl between the NFL’s New York Giants and New England Patriots, which saw New York win 21-17 after scoring a touchdown with less a minute remaining.
Still, sports still have some way to go before setting the all-time record. That belongs to a Dec. 9 television broadcast of the movie “Castle in the Sky” in Japan, which saw a peak of 25,088 tweets a second.
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