MUMBAI: While FIFA World Cup 2018 Russia was arguably the best ever in the history of the competitio, where there is no argument is in the fact that had the highest fan engagement by far.
Micro-blogging website Twitter has compiled the numbers and announced that of the 115 billion impressions of tweets during the World Cup, which kicked off on June 14, fans tweeted the most during the July 15 final between France and Croatia.
Also, fans tweeted the most when Kylian Mbappe scored France’s fourth goal in its World Cup final victory over Croatia than at any other point during the tournament.
It was followed by Philippe Coutinho’s goal in extra time which gave Brazil 1-0 lead over Costa Rica on June 22 and the game where South Korea stunned Germany 2-0 on June 27 stood at third place.
Football fans in Brazil sent more tweets about the tournament than any other country followed by Japan, United Kingdom, United States and France.
When it came to the most-mentioned player of the tournament on Twitter, Brazilian star Neymar Jr. topped the charts and was follwed by Argentina’s Lionel Messi, Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo, France’s Kylian Mbappe and Brazil’s Philippe Coutinho.
