A new sporting Twitter record was set on Sunday as reaction to 80-yard overtime touchdown pass by the Denver Broncos quarterback, Tim Tebow, hit 9,420 tweets per second.

The touchdown, which was scored in overtime, by the Denver Broncos player, led his team to victory and an upset against the Pittsburgh Steelers — although it failed to displace Japan in the number one spot. Read More »

Following the Football Association in the UK’s run in with players on Twitter and a subsequent crackdown last week the NFL is having similar problems in the US as a row between the players union and owners has gone loud on Twitter. Read More »

File this one under stupid and irony. The Washington Post has suspended sports columnist Mike Wise after he inadvisably sent a fake tweet claiming that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for five games. Read More »

It must be paywall day (again). It is being reported that The Dallas Morning News plans to erect a paywall around part of its website. This will apparently include its coverage of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. Read More »

PepsiCo brand Gatorade is taking its social media strategy very seriously indeed – so much so that it has built a mission control centre replete with screens beaming out brightly-coloured visualisations of what people are saying about it on the likes of Twitter. Read More »