( CNN ) -- It 's not as audible as the noise from vuvuzelas , but internet buzz over the 2010 FIFA World Cup has observers calling the tournament the biggest event in Web history . The tournament has surpassed the historic election of President Obama , which held that honor until now . According to Akamai , a content delivery network , the Web peaked at more than 12 million users per minute just two hours after the kickoff between South Africa and Mexico . By comparison , about 8.5 million people were logging on per minute the November evening that Obama was elected in 2008 . Noisemakers were also sounding out on Twitter , which has been seeing big spikes in the number of tweets every time a big goal is scored . The site , which sees a daily average of 750 tweets per second , recorded a skyrocketing 2,940 after Japan scored against Cameroon last Monday . Nearly as much traffic was reported after Brazil 's first goal against North Korea in its 2-1 victory that same day , as well as after Mexico 's tying goal against South Africa on June 11 . Still , it was an American favorite that scored Twitter 's single-biggest moment . The Los Angeles Lakers ' victory against the Boston Celtics at the NBA Championship last Thursday generated a record 3,085 tweets per second as the game ended . Read about fans keeping track of matches during office hours . Nonetheless , World Cup numbers have been so consistently high that Twitter was struggling to keep its ship afloat . The social networking site reported several outages attributed to high traffic specific to the World Cup . The site said on its blog that it is `` making real-time adjustments so that we can grow our capacity and avoid outages during the World Cup , '' and will allow users to monitor the status of the site . And it 's not just the average ( or angry ) soccer fan who 's tweeting . When the United States was denied a miracle comeback against Slovenia last week after a referee 's controversial , late-game call , FIFA President Sepp Blatter turned to Twitter for a `` response '' to the resulting hullabaloo . He wrote : `` Thanks for all the questions on refereeing . My views on improving refs and video technology are here . '' The link directs readers to a statement he made in March , explaining why there would be no instant replay at the World Cup , or anywhere else in world soccer , reported TIME.com . Twitter said Monday it could not immediately provide statistics on the number of tweets it received during that match . Blatter has been tweeting regularly since the start of the matches , with his vuvuzela tweet attracting nine followers per second , according to FIFA . The federation 's website , FIFA.com , also has seen record-breaking numbers . Close to 300 million pages were accessed by nearly 10 million visitors when Brazil beat North Korea . It 's a similar picture on TV . According to a report in Mediaweek , the first 14 matches of the World Cup , as seen on ESPN and ABC , have delivered an average of about 3.3 million viewers , which is a 64 percent increase from the same period in 2006 , CNN.com reported Monday . The U.S.-England match , which ended in a tie June 12 , drew 13 million viewers to ABC , making it the most-watched first round World Cup game in U.S. broadcast history .
The network peaked at more than 12 million users per minute at the start of the World Cup . World Cup numbers are so high that Twitter is struggling to keep its network afloat . The 2010 World Cup has surpassed Twitter 's election in Web traffic .