Good Job Phelps

Well, he did it; 8 gold medals in one Olympics. Beat his old, pathetic record of 6 golds, and Spitz's olympic record of 7 golds. For some reason NBC chose not to stream this event online, so I was watching Table Tennis (Hong Kong vs. Korea). Intense, but probably not as much as that last momentous race. How did I find out? I was watching the Twitter search results for keyword 'Phelps' and suddenly it blew up, as you can see below.



In the last two minutes since I've been writing this, the word Phelps has come up 739 times on Twitter, and I'm sure it will be higher by the time I get to the end of this even. Look forward to seeing the actual race later, so adios for now.

(P.S. 806 now.)

Edit: Had to include this tweet:



Godspeed.


This posted tagged as: olympics, twitter

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• Goodbye Olympics
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#1: by Ricardo Bueno on 08/17/08 @ 5:08AM EST

First off, "way to go Phelps!!!"

Secondly, isn't twitter amazing??? Heck, when we had that earthquake ~ 2 weeks ago, people were twittering about it before the news even talked about it.

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#2: by will on 08/17/08 @ 9:21AM EST

Yeah, it's crazy stuff; Twitter is definitely the fastest news source out there.

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