#FlyTheW: @Cubs win the 2016 #WorldSeries
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Thursday, 3 November 2016
The 2016 @MLB World Series played out in historic fashion with the @Cubs defeating the @Indians in seven games. And all of the top #Postseason moments, including the thrilling extra-inning final game, unfolded on Twitter.
After Chicago clinched its first #WorldSeries title in 108 years, the @Cubs celebrated on the field and in the clubhouse:
Cubs players turned to Twitter as well:
Despite just missing out on this year’s title, the @Indians captivated fans during their postseason run and made sure to thank them on Twitter:
Twitter data records
More than 18 million Tweets were sent about the #WorldSeries, including 10.5 million Tweets in the thrilling Game 7 finale, both Twitter records for a World Series and a @MLB game.
Here are the moments that generated the biggest peaks of Twitter conversation during the series — all of which came in the final game — measured in Tweets per minute (TPM):
Here are the most-mentioned @Cubs players on Twitter, led by Aroldis Chapman, since the series began:
And Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist (@benzobrist18) was named #WorldSeries MVP:
Before the series began, Twitter and @MLB launched World Series Stickers – two for the World Series and three each for the Cubs and Indians:
Video highlights of the best moments throughout the World Series were delivered to fans’ timelines thanks to the Twitter Amplify partnership with MLB and four brands: Ally Bank, Hefty, Motorola and Stouffer’s.
And how about this… Twitter user @RaysFanGio’s Tweet from 2014 surfaced and now has been Retweeted over 153,000 times. Good call, Gio!
@POTUS, despite being a @whitesox fan, congratulated the @Cubs:
Longtime Cubs fan Bill Murray was part of the celebration as well. Check him out behind the microphone:
We’ll see you next season as Twitter live streams one MLB game a week in 2017. We’ll leave you with this Periscope from the streets of Chicago outside Wrigley Field:
