Twitter's World Cup Data Is Fascinating

Twitter has been collecting tweet data throughout the World Cup, and it is fascinating. Also on Extra Mustard: Twitter Celebrates John Brooks' Game-Winning

Twitter has been collecting tweet data throughout the World Cup, and it is fascinating.

Also on Extra Mustard: Twitter Celebrates John Brooks' Game-Winning World Cup Goal

During last night's game against Ghana, quite a few interesting trends emerged. Perhaps the most mindblowing was this interactive map that tracked tweets throughout the match (there were 4.9 million tweets total):

There was also data about the most-mentioned players:

https://twitter.com/TwitterData/status/478700464330928128

But if you don't care about America's miracle victory over Ghana, Twitter Data still has you covered. They also tracked data from the Germany-Portugal game:

https://twitter.com/TwitterData/status/478667347406757889

https://twitter.com/TwitterData/status/478610274807595008

https://twitter.com/TwitterData/status/478603096424083456

They'll be tracking data throughout the rest of the World Cup, so follow @TwitterData to keep up.

Man. Twitter Data makes me with I'd paid more attention in my high school statistics class.

Follow Extra Mustard and Nicole Conlan on Twitter.