Olympics Opening Ceremony Triggers 9.66 Million Twitter Mentions [INFOGRAPHIC]

Did you watch the opening ceremony of the London Olympics? You’re in good company. The event had almost 27 million television viewers in the United Kingdom alone, and close to 10 million tweets on Twitter were written about the Games during the festivities.

The data comes courtesy of Twitter UK, who also note that the appearance of Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the world wide web, “set Twitter alive” as the tweet he sent during the ceremony received almost 10,000 retweets.

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