Usain Bolt's second 100m sprint win broke a record on Twitter during the Olympics with 74,000 tweets being sent about it each minute.
It is the highest number of tweets during the Olympic Games since the opening ceremony.
According to Twitter's communications service, the Jamaican sprinter's win, which made him the second man ever to retain the title at the Olympics, was mentioned 74 thousand times a minute, setting a new record since the Games began.
Twitter's Communications service wrote: "New peak in #Olympics conversation: 74k TPM (tweets per minute) about @usainbolt winning the 100m yesterday."
Bolt won the final in 9.63 seconds, the fastest time the race has ever been run at the Olympics.
His sprint attracted a TV audience of 20 million people, the highest of the Games so far.
