London Olympics opening ceremony sees 9.66m tweets, beats Beijing 2008 total in just 24 hours

The Next Web writes, Twitter has revealed that the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games generated more than 9.66 million tweets, as the first day of the event went on to rack up more tweets than the entire 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The chances are that if you logged in to Twitter during the spectacular scenes (yes James Bond escorted the Queen) then your timeline will have been flooded/entirely dominated by tweets from the show. It certainly was for me, and now Twitter has given an indication of the scale of things. It’s no surprise that the microblogging site was at the forefront of the...

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