Brazil's 7-1 demolition at the hands of Germany was the most talked about single sports game in Twitter history, with a staggering 35.6m tweets smashing the previous record as gobsmacked football fans (and non-football fans) flooded to the social media site.
The previous record was held by Superbowl 48 when the Seattle Seahawks destroyed the Denver Broncos, but the 24.9m tweets about the NFL showcase game was comfortably surpassed by what is undoubtedly the worst semi-final showing in World Cup history, according to Twitter's official data figures.
The entire nation of Brazil was left in an emotional mess after four goals in six minutes saw their World Cup dreams crumble before them, and when Sami Khedira added a fifth, another record was set with an incredible peak of 580,166 tweets per minute to break the previous best of 388,985 set when Brazil knocked Chile out two weeks ago.
[independent]
