With More Than 28 Million Tweets, #SB49 was Twitter’s Biggest Super Bowl Ever

Over 28.4 million tweets were sent from around the world during Super Bowl XLIX, making it the most-tweeted Super Bowl in Twitter’s history.

Over 28.4 million tweets were sent from around the world during Super Bowl XLIX, making it the most-tweeted Super Bowl in Twitter’s history.

Last year 24.9 million tweets were sent during the game, which was the previous record. This year’s spectacle beat that total by almost four million.

The Super Bowl halftime show, which including Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz, generated three million tweets all by itself.

The three biggest events of the night were:

1. Malcolm Butler intercepts a pass by Russell Wilson one yard from the goal line with 20 seconds left in the game (395,000 tweets per minute)

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