Saturday’s World Cup game between Brazil and Chile set a new Twitter record, generating 16.3 million tweets – the most ever for a live event on the social network. The game saw the World Cup hosts get through to the quarter finals after a tense encounter that went to extra time, with Brazil finally winning 3-2 in the penalty shoot-out. The final moments of the match generated 388,985 tweets a minute, breaking the previous record during the Super Bowl, when 382,000 tweets were sent per minute. Twitter said more than 300 million messages were sent about the tournament since the group stages of the football competition began, with the event “already becoming one of the most talked about events on Twitter of all time.”
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