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What a party! Oh what a glorious party. RWC 2011 Finals week was massive. Fans from around the world arrived in Auckland for the Bronze Final on Friday night with Wales losing to Australia and the Grand Final on Sunday night where New Zealand beat France by one point.

Over finals weekend more than 300,000 tweets were posted plus 1,000's of pictures, videos and blog posts. On Sunday night with half an hour before kickoff "Go Allblacks" was trending in 9th place worldwide. More than 150,000 tweets mentioned "RWC 2011" or "RWCFinals" on Sunday. Popular topics on Twitter make the worldwide trending topics list. On Sunday "#RWCFinal' was the 2nd most popular trend in the world for several hours with "Congratulations New Zealand" trending around 6th place.There were more than 90,000 mentions of "New Zealand" on Twitter made in the 6 hours around the final, that's great advertising for New Zealand.

Bronze Final

On Friday night Australia and Wales played off for 3rd and 4th. Australia won an eventful match. This snapshot was taken 30 minutes into the first half. The Bronze Final generated more than 80,250 tweets