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How the #Ned v #Arg match played out on Twitter!

Cape Town - The second semi-final went all the way to penalties but that didn't stop millions of fans tweeting furiously throughout the match.

Argentina defeated the Netherlands on penalties in a match that had no goals until the penalty shootout.

As it happened: Netherlands v Argentina

14 200 000 - that is the staggering amount of tweets sent around the world as #ned and #arg fought it out in the semi-finals of the #worldcup. That makes this goalless match the third most tweeted about match of the 2014 SWC.

Here are the key moments as told by Twitter:



Heatmaps. All the cool kids are doing them these days and here is how Twitter "heatmapped" this titanic sem-final battle.



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