Relive Super Bowl 47 in 70 tweets
Didn't watch the big game? Want to recapture the drama? Here's the Ravens-49ers grudge match in fewer than 9,800 characters


Super Bowl XLVII "ended another lifetime after it began," clocking in at "a whopping 4 hours and 14 minutes," says The Associated Press' Tim Dahlberg. And it was "the strangest Super Bowl you will ever see." The showdown between quaterbacks Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens and Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers — and their respective coaches, brothers John and Jim Harbaugh — was also the most Twittered game in Super Bowl history, with 24.1 million tweets about the game and halftime show, including 231,500 tweets per minute when the lights went out for an extended blackout. So if you didn't watch the game, and need some quick talking points for work or other social interaction, or you did watch the game and want to relive the excitement and confusion — and Beyoncé! — here's a recap of Super Bowl XLVII, as retold in LXX tweets:
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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