More Tweets Sent Each Day This Year Than Entire 2008 Olympics

The Olympics officially take over the world for the next two weeks with Friday's opening ceremony in London, and Twitter just launched its dedicated event page aimed at tracking Olympics buzz on the social network and becoming a conversation hub for fans around the world.

Produced in partnership with NBC -- the Games' official broadcaster in the United States -- the page at twitter.com/#Olympics uses a combination of human curation and algorithms to collect relevant tweets from fans, media and athletes. The page can also be viewed by non-Twitter users looking to follow along.

The dedicated hub makes sense: Twitter said in a blog post Thursday that more tweets are already being se…
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