When Spain made his fourth goal in the final of the Tournament on Sunday, Twitter users have made more than 15 000 publications per second said microblog , according to the website Techland. It was a new record for tweets related to sports.

Twitter also said that during the match, in which the Spanish team won the Italian in a rout of 4 x 0, so recorded a total of 16.5 million posts.

Among the publications,  a tweet was published by the former Brazilian football player Pele, congratulating  Spain for winning the European championship and saying that he is waiting for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The wave of posts came just weeks before the London Olympics, which are expected to more records of activities in social networks on sports subjects.