Contest breaks Twitter record

stockholm - Twitterers have Saturday more than seven million tweets about the Eurovision Song Contest posted. A record, Twitter reported Sunday. Last year, six million tweets were sent and the previous year more than five million.

Ukraine was Saturday named the surprise winner. It left behind favorites Australia and Russia. In the minute that Ukraine appeared to have won nearly 73. 000 tweets were posted worldwide. That makes 00. 38 hours Dutch time the busiest Twitter Minutes in Eurovision history. Russia's actions led to nearly 54 000 tweets per minute. At the moment Croatia sang, almost 51 000 tweets were posted. The old record was the performance of Georgia last year, with over 48 000 tweets.

Twitter also sought how often used the three-letter hashtags for the participating countries. Leader was there #AUS for Australia, followed by #POL (Poland), #RUS (Russia), #FRA (France) and #GBR (Great Britain). The Netherlands is not in the top ten.
  
    
     Postman girl reads the lesson
     
     
     'Result is disgusting '
     
     
     Cute: puppies eat around
     
    
   
  

The most shared tweet came from the British vlogger Dan Howell, @danisnotonfire. He wrote that he tried to explain the contest to an American trucker, who replied:,, That sounds rather effeminate and terrible ''. That was retweeted by more than 13 000 people.

Also media company BuzzFeed scored on that front. The German branch of BuzzFeed sneered at French sister site on the French entry, to which France replied,, Talk to us when your candidate does not look like a Pokémon. '' Germany had manga girl Jamie-Lee submitted.

Ukraine was Saturday named the surprise winner. It left behind favorites Australia and Russia. In the minute that Ukraine appeared to have won nearly 73. 000 tweets were posted worldwide. That makes 00. 38 hours Dutch time the busiest Twitter Minutes in Eurovision history. Russia's actions led to nearly 54 000 tweets per minute. At the moment Croatia sang, almost 51 000 tweets were posted. The old record was the performance of Georgia last year, with over 48 000 tweets.

Twitter also sought how often used the three-letter hashtags for the participating countries. Leader was there #AUS for Australia, followed by #POL (Poland), #RUS (Russia), #FRA (France) and #GBR (Great Britain). The Netherlands is not in the top ten.
  
    
     Postman girl reads the lesson
     
     
     'Result is disgusting '
     
     
     Cute: puppies eat around
     
    
   
  

The most shared tweet came from the British vlogger Dan Howell, @danisnotonfire. He wrote that he tried to explain the contest to an American trucker, who replied:,, That sounds rather effeminate and terrible ''. That was retweeted by more than 13 000 people.

Also media company BuzzFeed scored on that front. The German branch of BuzzFeed sneered at French sister site on the French entry, to which France replied,, Talk to us when your candidate does not look like a Pokémon. '' Germany had manga girl Jamie-Lee submitted.

just tried to explain #Eurovision to an american truck driver and he said 'that sounds kinda queer and terrible' yes yes it is #ComeTogether

— Dan Howell (@danisnotonfire) May 14, 2016