“@jeanlucr: Pope Chosen: 130,000 Tweets a Minute, Tops Facebook Mentions, Over 7 million tweets for the event http://t.co/u7Ha94MRet”
March 14, 2013
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Pope Chosen: 130,000 Tweets a Minute, Tops Facebook Mentions
As white smoke rose from the Vatican, the world tuned in to see who would be selected as the successor to Pope Benedict XVI -- and social media analytics reflected the interest. On Twitter, an estimated 6 million tweets related to the selection of Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergolio were sent, the company said.

