Brazil’s World Cup was the biggest social media event on record involving 350 million Facebook Inc users worldwide, the company claimed on Monday, as it made strides into the so-called “real-time” market dominated by Twitter.People increasingly are using social networking to comment on global events seen on television, like the month-long soccer tournament won by Germany on Sunday.
Figures obtained by Reuters showed that the 350 million users generated a record Facebook “conversation” with 3 billion posts, comments and likes.
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