If you’re England and you go crashing out of the World Cup at the semi-finals stage on your home ground, then it would be considered as an unprecedented success. However, in the spiritual home of football, the Seleção are supposed to win the World Cup for a record sixth time with home ground support, and anything else would be deemed to be a failure. As fate would have it, another aberration of a match happened, except that it was worse than the hiding that Netherlands dished out to Spain, with the German machine crushing Brazil by a margin of 7 to 1.
The FIFA World Cup has just helped Twitter break its own record, again. The dramatic Brazil vs Germany semi-final match last night scored a whopping 35.6 million tweets, breaking the previous record of 16.4 million tweets racked up by the Brazil-Chile match also during the World Cup less than two weeks ago, with more than double the number of tweets. Brazil was utterly humiliated during the game, with Germany scoring five goals in the first 30 minutes of the game and eventually taking down Brazil 7-1. Twitter also says that Sami Khedira’s goal at the 29th minute of the game triggered 580,166 tweets per minute to become a new record — it easily beat the Brazil-Chile match record of 389,000 tweets per minute and Superbowl 48 (382,000 tweets per minute).