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**BY EVAN THOMAS**
**ANCHOR LAUREN ZIMA**
Want to know who took the title in Sunday’s Super Bowl? It wasn’t the G-men
nor the Pats. It was — Twitter.
At least — that’s the sentiment among the Twitterati.
The official word, from Twitter’s TweetDeck? 10k tweets per second in the
final three minutes of the game set a US sports-tweeting record.
So much for all those couch potato quarterbacks. Arm-chair Twitterbacks were
exercising their thumbs and fingers like never before. Well almost. TechCrunch
sizes up the competition.
**”Last year, there were several moments during the Super Bowl that set
records for the most tweets per second during a sporting event, with a high of
4,064 TPS. Of course, the highs during the Super Bowl were no match for New
Years Eve 2011 in Japan, which saw 6,939 tweets per second.”**
As social media grows, so do its advertising implications. While many people
tweeted about the ads — or Madonna’s act — or MIA’s fickle finger of fate –
there was nothing fickle about engagement in the Twitterscape. The Next Web
calls it — a trend.
**”The news should not come as any surprise as Twitter continues …
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