Soccer fans set tweet-per-second record

On the social network, Soccer fans have beat out football fans. During the peak of the Champions League match between Barcelona and Chelsea in London yesterday, 13,684 tweets per second were sent out globally -- setting a Twitter record for tweets during a sporting event.

The high mark of this year's Super Bowl was 12,233 tweets per second. That spike of tweets happened in the last three minutes of the game when the New York Giants scored a touchdown and won the game. Madonna's halftime show was also popular, peaking at 10,245 tweets per second.

But soccer remains the stronger Twitter hitter. Last July, a tweet-per-second record was previously set during the Women's World Cup final soccer match between the U.S. and Japan with 7,196 tweets per second.

This news also comes at the same time as Brazilian soccer player Kaka, who plays for Real Madrid, has been crowned as the first pro athlete to amass more than 10 million Twitter followers.