Wednesday, July 09, 2014

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From The Guardian...
"Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil in the World Cup semi-final sent shockwaves around the football world, but it was also a big deal on Twitter. The social network says that the match became its most discussed sports game ever, with 35.6m tweets. It easily beat the previous record of 24.9m tweets set by the Super Bowl earlier in 2014. Germany's fifth goal, scored by Sami Khedira, also broke another Twitter record, helping the match peak at 580,166 tweets per minute (TPM)."

And also...
"Germany's World Cup semi-final clash with Brazil was a big night for BBC sport and its team generally did a creditable job of avoiding crass wartime analogies in describing the winners. However, several BBC viewers complained on Twitter after commentator Steve Wilson referred to German fans singing 'Deutschland über alles', not the country's national anthem since the end of the Second World War and a matter of some sensitivity."

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