With 35.6 million Tweets, #BRA v #GER is the most-discussed single sports game ever on Twitter. #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/pRjssAZmhg
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) July 9, 2014 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.
The #BRA v #GER match also set a TPM record: Khedira's 29' goal (0-5) saw 580,166 TPM. #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/188YGgrgZg
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) July 9, 2014 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.
Hosted a watch party for your World Cup joke tweets pic.twitter.com/vfVtBdN7Zg
— Michael Katz (@KatzM) July 8, 2014 










