Five Million Tweets for #Eurovision 2014 | Twitter Blogs
The Eurovision Song Contest Final drew massive audiences and over 5 million Tweets as Europe came together to witness@ConchitaWurst’s victory.
The glamour, glitz and glorious camp of #Eurovision delivered on its annual promise of a must-tweet spectacle, generating a massive 5,384,678 Tweets sent around the broadcast.
The final count is in: 5.3M+ Tweets sent around the #Eurovision final. Peak TPM for@ConchitaWurst’s victory.pic.twitter.com/O3s9nuNLfR— Twitter UK (@TwitterUK) May 11, 2014
The peak of Twitter activity came when Austria’s @ConchitaWurst was announced as the winner, with 47,136 Tweets per minute (TPM). That moment was followed closely by Conchita’s performance, generating 42,660 TPM.
And the third most tweeted about moment came as France’s @TwinTwinOhYeahunleashed #Moustache on the world (39,353 TPM).
Despite being the third most tweeted about moment of the evening, France achieved the fewest number of votes in the final, coming last with only two points.
We’ve loved every second of this Eurovision week in Copenhagen ! Amazing crew, amazing audience. #TwinTwinerzpic.twitter.com/fwmCSw37wv— TWIN TWIN (@TwinTwinOhYeah) May 10, 2014
@ConchitaWurst won not only Eurovision 2014, but also gained a massive number of followers on Twitter.
The Twitter conversation lit up Europe all night. Click the image below to explore the interactive animation of the Twitter activity.
Click on map to interact with it. Map created with CartoDB.
The night belonged to Conchita, with Twitter users from across the UK lending their support…