Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers runs for a touchdown in the fourth quarter against the Baltimore Ravens during Super Bowl XLVII.
(Credit: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
This year's Super Bowl started out as a blowout, with the Ravens crushing the 49ers. After a 108-yard kickoff return by the Ravens to start the second half, a power outage delayed the game for more than 30 minutes. Following the delay, the 49ers got their mojo working and the two teams, and two brother coaches, battled intensely to the finish.
This is great script for a blowout evening of tweeting by football lovers, advertising geeks and Beyonce fans.
According to Twitter, the game and halftime show with Beyonce spawned 24.1 million tweets. The non-halftime entertainment peaked at 231,500 tweets-per-minute, during the power outage. The 2013 Super Bowl tweeting surpassed the Nov. presidential election, when there were 23 million tweets over a six-hour period. A tweet by President Obama following his reelection peaked at 327,000 tweets-per-second.
Beyonce's halftime performance generated 5.5 million of the 24.1 million tweets, with a peak of 268,000 tweets-per-minute at the end of her performance. </... [Read more]
by Dan Farber via CNET
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