- Olympics inspire record Twitter conversation After 16 days and 150 million tweets, the London 2012 Olympics have come to a close. As witnessed by so many other major world events, huge conversation and debate happened on Twitter. We take a look at some of the numbers.
- Olympic opening ceremony mentioned 9.66 million times on Twitter Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and the games are well underway, Twitter UK published a great statistic from Friday night - the opening ceremony was mentioned 9.66 million times on Twitter worldwide.