Women's World Cup final breaks Twitter record

If you want to gauge the popularity of ( or anything) women's soccer look no further than Twitter.

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Twitter says the finish of the Women's World Cup final between Japan and the United States broke the record for tweets per second.

The exciting climax drew 7,196 tweets per second.

The previous record of 6,939 was set just after midnight in Japan on New Year's Day. Other spikes include Osama bin Laden's death (5,106 per second) and the Super Bowl in February (4,064). Read more at www.usatoday.com

 

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