The Super Bowl XLV showdown between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers set more than just an all-time TV ratings record. No, Green Bay’s taut 31-25 victory over Pittsburgh was also the most tweeted sporting event of all-time.

To be precise, at 10:07:16 Eastern Standard Time, Twitter users were sending out some 4,064 tweets per second, which shattered the previous record held by Japan’s 3-1 win over Denmark during last summer’s World Cup in South Africa. But more than that, global Twitter usage actually broke that record six times during Sunday’s contest.

And, with Twitter being Twitter, the company has released a helpful chart that helps illustrate the spikes in TPS (or tweets per second, natch) that occurred during various points of the game. As you can see, the first record-breaking occurred when eventual-Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers hit wide receiver Jordy Nelson for the game’s first touchdown. (Click the image to embiggen and take a look for yourself.)

Interestingly enough, Usher ended up being the most talked about person during the entire Super Bowl, thanks to his surprise appearance during what was an otherwise dreadful halftime show featuring the Black Eyed Peas. (Actually, it’s kind of sad to see how small Slash’s spike is as compared to Usher’s.)

Still, with the NFL having set all sorts of ratings records during the 2010 season, it really comes as no surprise that this year’s Super Bowl would take its rightful place not only atop the TV ratings pantheon but Twitter’s traffic charts as well.

Photo: AP/David J. Phillip

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