Twitter exploded yesterday at the news of Kenny Dalglish’s sacking<\/a> by Liverpool FC.\u00a0The Liverpool stream<\/a> on FootyTwits<\/a>\u00a0was flooded with football fans commenting the news.\u00a0Although\u00a0FootyTwits<\/a>\u00a0was not able to record the “incident” at the moment it happened, about half an hour after the news was made official, there were still a stunning 3,000 tweets per minute on the\u00a0Liverpool stream.<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter has increasingly become the first destination for football fans to read and write comments regarding matches and incidents. Recently, there were articles on how the Manchester derby generated 1 million tweets<\/a> or how the Barcelona – Chelsea Champions League semi-final reached a peak of 13,684 tweets per second. Another article written by Digital-Football.com, indicated that there are nearly 29 million users following football clubs on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n We can expect even greater volumes of tweets in the coming days and months. The Champions League final on Saturday will, undoubtedly, break another Twitter record. And the next record-breaker after that could be during the Euro 2012 tournament.<\/p>\n Without a doubt, Twitter has become a primary channel for football conversation and combined with the “breaking news” nature of micro-blogging, has to be viewed as a serious communication channel. Dalglish<\/a> was the Premier League’s only manager on Twitter and his sacking now means that Celtic manager, Neil Lennon<\/a>, is the only manager in charge of a European team to be active on the micro-blogging platform.<\/p>\n