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Twitter record smashed by Brazil v Chile World Cup match
PARIS: A record 16.3 million tweets were sent during Saturday's World Cup game between Brazil and Chile, the most ever for a live event on the social network. The game saw the World Cup hosts go through to the quarter finals after a nail-biting encounter that went to extra time, with Brazil finally winning 3-2 in the penalty shoot-out. The final moments of the match -- which saw Chile miss their final penalty -- generated 388,985 tweets a minute, Twitter said.
Netherlands vs Mexico: Huntelaar sends Netherlands into World Cup quarterfinals
FORTALEZA (Brazil): Klaas-Jan Huntelaar struck a stoppage-time penalty as the Netherlands staged an incredible late fightback to beat Mexico 2-1 and reach the World Cup quarterfinals on Sunday. Huntelaar kept his cool in furnace-like conditions to fire Holland into the last eight after Wesley Sneijder had scored an 88th-minute equaliser to cancel out Giovani Dos Santos's goal for Mexico. The dramatic Dutch fightback left Mexico's players in tears as their last 16 jinx struck again. Mexico have now lost in the second round in six consecutive World Cup appearances, and had been just minutes away from a first quarterfinal since 1986.
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