Sports and social media are interconnected in 2015. Recently published numbers from Twitter have greatly underscored that fact.
Twitter measured “impressions” for the biggest events of the year. An impression counts as any time a tweet is viewed both on Twitter or embedded somewhere on another website.
While some of the items on the list — like Super Bowl XLIX and the NBA Finals — won’t surprise you, the popularity of some events outside the U.S. might be eye-opening.
Here are the top 15 events that broke Twitter in 2015.
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h/t to Mashable
