Tim Tebow?s heroics rack up amazing stats? on Twitter

Sometimes, Twitter is such an amazing tool for journalists and for anyone interested in keeping up with news.

At other times, however, it still seems downright silly.

This is one of those times. Darren Rovell of CNBC spotted Twitter?s announcement about the amazing load of tweets during yesterday?s overtime win by the Denver Broncos and put those numbers into perspective for us:

The graphics editor in me can?t let it go at that, however. Numbers like those just have to be charted.

Again, these are the number of tweets per second:

Granted, Rovell cherry-picked those numbers. Tom Weir of USA Today reports, for example:

The previous [Twitter] record was held by Beyonce, at 8,868 tweets per second, when she announced on the MTV Music Awards that she was pregnant.

But still. You know something odd is happening when you see tweets like this one:

Thanks to Kyle Ellis of the Las Vegas Sun for passing that one along last night.

Tony Manfred of the Business Insider has compiled a collection of the 15 funniest Tebow tweets from last night?s frenzy. That one by Lady Gaga was one. Here are three more:

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Find Manfred?s collection here. Read his story here.

In case you?re wondering: Yes, I joined the din myself last night:

That?s about as witty as I get on a Sunday evening.

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