Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

The Tim Tebow pass that won Sunday’s NFL Playoffs game for the Denver Broncos shattered Twitter’s record for sports-event tweeting, the San Francisco company announced Monday.
On its own service, Twitter posted Monday morning that it recorded 9,420 tweets per second after Broncos QB Tebow threw an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first play of overtime to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 29-23.

“Last night @TimTebow lead the @Denver_Broncos to an overtime playoff win and a new sports Tweets per second record: 9420,” Twitter announced.

Twitter announced in December that its all-time record for tweets-per-second was set on Dec. 9, when a popular Japanese animated movie, Hayao Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky,” screened on television, producing a whopping 25,088 tweets per second. Prior to that event, the record had belonged to the 2011 MTV Music Awards, which produced 8,868 tweets per second after R&B singer Beyonce announced she was pregnant on the live show.

The top sports event before Tebow’s touchdown was the end of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, in which Japan beat the United States in a shootout; Twitter recorded 7,196 tweets per second for that event.

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