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<\/a><\/p>\n2012 Summer Olympics<\/h3>\n
The 16-day Summer Olympics in London generated 150 million Tweets.<\/p>\n
The closing ceremonies – specifically, the Spice Girls\u2019 performance, Twitter said – amassed the largest Olympics-related spike at 116,000+ Tweets per minute.<\/p>\n
The largest competition-related buzz was when Jamaica\u2019s Usain Bolt won gold in the 200m sprint, generating 80,000 tweets per minute.<\/p>\n
The first round of the US presidential debates produced 10 million tweets, Twitter said, with 31 million+ tweets sent about the election on Election Day.<\/p>\n During the vote counting, election buzz on Twitter spiked, hitting a peak of 327,452 tweets per minute<\/p>\n During the MTN VMAs, 52 million votes were cast via Tweets for the \u201cMost Sharable Video\u201d for the show.<\/p>\n The VMAs itself generated 14.7 million tweets, according to Twitter, while the biggest peak was when One Direction won Best Pop Video with 98,307 tweets per minute.<\/p>\n Taylor Swift\u2019s performance was the night\u2019s second biggest moment, generating 86,275 tweets per minute, Twitter said.<\/p>\n During the US Super Bowl, 13.7 million Super Bowl-related tweets were sent during the game on 5 February – one million of them appeared in the final five minutes.<\/p>\n Tweets spiked when an incomplete pass by the Patriots sealed the Giants\u2019 victory, at 201,466 tweets per minute, Twitter said, while Madonna\u2019s halftime show saw 108,077 tweets per minute.<\/p>\n During the Euro 2012 final – in which Spain beat Italy 4-0 – Juan Mata\u2019s goal sparked 267,200 Tweets per minute.<\/p>\n Superstorm Sandy hit the US East Coast hard in October 2012, leading Twitter to be used as a news wire for people concerned, all over the world.<\/p>\n Between October 27 and November 1, people sent more than 20 million tweets about Sandy\u2019s impact and aftermath, Twitter said.<\/p>\n During the Champions League semi-final between Barcelona and Chelsea, total global traffic on Twitter peaked at 184,535 tweets per minute.<\/p>\n This followed Fernando Torres\u2019 goal to tie the game for Chelsea.<\/p>\n Thousands of Japanese Anime fans took to Twitter to create their own \u201clive\u201d event by tweeting a line from Japanese anime movie \u201cSummer Wars\u201d at the exact time the character said it in the film.<\/p>\n When news broke of Whitney Houston’s death on 11 February 2012, the news spread to millions of her fans over Twitter.<\/p>\n The news of her passing generated more than 10 million Tweets – 73,662 tweets per minute, according to Twitter.<\/p>\n The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) – which was up for debate in the US – drew millions into online protests which played out over Twitter and other websites.<\/p>\n As the debate heated up, #SOPA on Twitter exploded from 106,000 mentions to 3.5 million – in 24 hours.<\/p>\n Similarly, in the same day, 86,500 #PIPA mentions grew to more than 655,500, Twitter said.<\/p>\n The Pope makes a grand entry to Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Obama \u201cFour more years\u201d captures Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n2012 US Elections<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMTV Video Music Awards<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSuper Bowl<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nEuro 2012<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSuperstorm Sandy<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nUEFA Champions League Semi-Final<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cSummer Wars\u201d obsession<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhitney Houston’s passing<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSOPA\/PIPA<\/h3>\n
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