Twitter's London Olympic games: Athletes will wear Twitter handles on their bibs

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June 20, 2012

Twitter's London Olympic games: Athletes will wear Twitter handles on their bibs

ABC15.com :: Users sent 13,684 tweets per second during a Champions League soccer match between Barcelona and Chelsea in April, a record volume of tweets for a sporting event -- busier even than the 2012 Super Bowl. Chances are good that will be one of the records broken in London. "It could be the 100-meter final or something unexpected," said Lewis Wiltshire, Twitter U.K.'s head of sport. At the last Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008, Twitter had about 6 million users and Facebook 100 million. Today, the figure is 140 million for Twitter and 900 million for Facebook.

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