Japan’s penalty-kick win over the U.S. in the World Cup final broke Twitter’s record with 7,196 tweets-per-second. The previous high of 6,939 was hit on New Year’s in Japan, so it stands to reason that Japan would help break the record once again, intermixed with tweets from disappointed U.S. fans.
Over at ESPN, the game set a record for the cable network’s most-watched soccer telecast with a 7.4 HH rating. Excluding NFL games, it was the fifth most-watched sports telecast on ESPN, trailing only the 2011 BCS games.
Along with 547,999 other people, I wasn’t watching it on ESPN proper, but on ESPN3.com (in my case, through my Xbox on TV.) Nearly 40 million total minutes were consumed across all of ESPN’s digital streams of the event. And ESPN says its new WatchESPN iPad app saw its most engaging event ever with an average time spent of 38 minutes per user.