Report: Champions League More Popular on Twitter Than Super Bowl

It's not often the Wall Street Journal and Bleacher Report mix, but when they do, you know it means something good.

According to MarketWatch.com on Wednesday, Twitter reported that the Barcelona-Chelsea draw produced a record—get ready for it—13,684 tweets per second.

Whoa.

MarketWatch.com went on in to say that the previous record for a sporting event was "12,233 tweets per second during the climax of February’s Super Bowl between the NFL’s New York Giants and New England Patriots, which saw New York win 21-17 after scoring a touchdown with less a minute remaining."

It's a good day when the world's most popular game shows its stuff against America's most popular game on social networks like Twitter. However, I believe this number isn't just because a lot of Spaniards and Brits were on their iPhones and Blackberrys.

PCMag.com reported that as of February 2012, the "U.S. is still the top country on Twitter in terms of number of users with 107.7 million accounts."

Who's in second-place? Brazil—with 33.3 million.

That's how big the gap is. A spike that big has to have its roots in the U.S. After all, Americans have contributed to all the other sporting events which previously held the record for "most tweeted."

As BusinessInsider.com points out, this includes the 2011 NBA finals, the 2011 MLB Home Run Derby and the 2011 Women's World Cup final.

Be proud, world football fans—you made the Champions League more popular than the Super Bowl.