The USA vs Algeria World Cup 2010 Gained more than 12 million visitors per minute - A record 12 million viewers followed the USA’s 2010 World Cup opening game against England on TV despite Major League Baseball and the NBA finals filling America’s sports calendar.

The overall traffic record was set earlier this month during the first day of World Cup action, where traffic exceeded 12 million visitors per minute.

The plethora of World Cup breaking news briefly knocked Yahoo Sports offline and also caused issues at Twitter though the latter has been somewhat of a regular occurrence during the World Cup.

In the minutes following Landon Donovan’s game winning goal in the 91st minute of action, traffic spiked to 11.2 million visitors per minute, which moves the event past the 2008 presidential election as the second highest traffic spike of all-time.