Brazil’s record defeat at the hands of Germany in the World Cup semi-final sent Twitter into overdrive, with the social network beating all records of activity for a sporting event.
A total of 35.6 million tweets were sent during the match on Tuesday, in which the Germans thrashed Brazil 7-1 – the host nation’s worst loss in its 100-year footballing history.
The previous record had been held by the American Super Bowl in February, over which nearly 25 million comments unfurled on Twitter, the social network told AFP.
The fifth German goal by Sami Khedira just 29 minutes into the match sparked the most comments, generating more than 580,000 tweets in the space of a minute.
But generally, the jaw-dropping match inspired a deluge of biting comments on the social network by netizens shocked that a team deprived of injured star player Neymar could suffer such a thrashing.
“Brazil has Neymar, Argentina has Messi, Portugal has Ronaldo but Germany has a team,” one widely retweeted comment said.
Until now in the World Cup, the nail-biting game between Brazil and Chile that went to extra time and resulted in the hosts scraping through in a penalty shootout had held the Twitter record with 16.3 million tweets.
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