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Summary More than 74,000 messages posted every minute for his 100-metre triumph.
Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt dominated Twitter during the Olympics, the social networking site has revealed, with his gold in the 200 metres inspiring a staggering 80,000 tweets per minute.He followed it up with more than 74,000 messages posted every minute for his 100-metre triumph, the second most-tweeted event of London 2012, the website said after the Games closed late Sunday.Bolts Jamaican sprint teammate Yohan Blake also made the top ten, along with US gymnast Gabby Douglas, British tennis player Andy Murray, and NBA basketball stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.Traffic also soared in the ceremonies before and after the Games -- with the Spice Girls performance in Londons closing extravaganza inspiring more than 116,000 tweets a minute alone.The website had already disclosed that the opening ceremony sparked 9.66 million tweets -- more than the whole of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Football was the most popular sport of the Games across Twitters 33 supported languages, driving well over five million tweets.Jamaicas world record-smashing win in the mens 4x100 relay -- the event which gave Bolt his third gold of the Games -- was hailed by more than 52,000 tweets each minute.Murrays gold in the mens tennis singles outstripped this slightly with some 57,000 posts a minute, while the United States victory over Spain in the mens basketball final sparked more than 41,000 a minute.
