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Germany beat Brazil so bad it became the most-tweeted sporting event ever

People like to tweet about sports!

The loudest moment was Sami Khedira’s goal to make it 5-0, which reached 580,1666 TPM, Twitter’s metric for tweets per minute.

Compare that to 306,100 TPM for Miley Cyrus’ performance at the VMAs, the gold standard in Twitter Mania.

Here is what a that looked like in real-time on Twitter — with audio from Ian Darke.

All of these 35.6 million tweets were good tweets. Well, except yours. Everyone else had a watch party for your awful World Cup joke tweets and it went like this.

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