Germany's World Cup Thrashing of Brazil Breaks Twitter Records

Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil in the World Cup semi-final sent shockwaves around the football world, but it was also a big deal on Twitter.

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The social network says that the match became its most discussed sports game ever, with 35.6m tweets. It easily beat the previous record of 24.9m tweets set by the Super Bowl earlier in 2014.

Germany's fifth goal, scored by Sami Khedira, also broke another Twitter record, helping the match peak at 580,166 tweets per minute (TPM).

Twitter has also published a "heat map" of how the Brazil / Germany game played out on the social network, tracking tweets mentioning key terms around the game, while noting that Miroslav Klose – who broke another record against Brazil with his 16th World Cup finals goal – was the most mentioned player on its network.

Meanwhile, the online community was armed with quick-witted commentary mocking the embarrassing defeat for Brazil in the form of memes. Here are five of our favourite reactions:

The best memes referenced Brazil's famous Christ the Redeemer statue

 A goal for every day of the week, courtesy of Germany.

Meme of football legend Pele weighing his affiliation to the Brazilian team.

Perhaps an explanation of the final result for Brazil supporters?

Why we love the internet: the comparison to Jay Z and Solange's elevator beat-down was arguably one of the funniest comparisons.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/09/germany-brazil-world-cup-twitter-sami-khedira