Brazil 2014: With 35.6m tweets, Brazil-Germany is most tweeted match in history

Brazil-Germany (1-7 in Belo Horizonte) is the most tweeted football game in the history of the social network Twitter (founded in 2006); there were 35.6m tweets during this, the first semi-final of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil (from 12/06 to 13/07/2014), on 08/07/2014.

The record for most tweets per minute was also surpassed when the fifth German goal was scored at the 29^th minute (the 4^th in less than seven minutes) by Sami Khedira; there were 580,166 tweets in that minute according to Twitter. More messages were generated during this fixture than during the 2014 (24.9m tweets) and 2013 Super Bowls (24.1m tweets).

The previous record for the number of tweets during a football game was the round of 16 fixture between Brazil and Chile (1-1, 3-2 in penalty shootouts, in Belo Horizonte) with 16.4m tweets on 28/06/2014.

Brazil-Germany also established a new record on the social network Facebook with 200m interactions (posts, comments and likes) from 66m people in the world. Brazil had the most interactions; 16m Brazilians commented on the game on Facebook in a total of 52m interactions.