Talk of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony was expected to take over Twitter, and the Twitter community of 140 million active users worldwide didn’t disappoint.
On Friday, Twitter saw more tweets in one day than during the whole duration of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, according to a blog post by the microblogging service.
In 2008, the average number of tweets stood at around 300,000 per day. That number has grown dramatically ever since, and on Friday 9.66 million mentions of the opening ceremony were made on Twitter between 8.00 p.m. U.K. time through to the end of the U.S. broadcast, which started three hours later.
In 2008, the average number of tweets stood at around 300,000 per day. That number has grown dramatically ever since, and on Friday between 8.00 p.m. U.K. time through to the end of the delayed U.S. broadcast which started three hours later, 9.66 million mentions of the opening ceremony were made on Twitter.