More than 100,000 tweets about State of Origin were sent last night

OVER the 80 minutes of football in last night’s State of Origin, more than 100,000 tweets were sent. These were the best of them.

A world of Hayne was felt by the #QLDERS in their loss against the mighty #NSWBlues last

WHAT a game last night! It looked like the Blues were going to suffer another defeat, before Paul Gallen and Jarryd Hayne steered the team to #Origin victory.

Twitter was equally enthused, if not more, with more than 100,000 Origin-related tweets sent during game time - a Twitter record for the series.

Another 2303 tweets were sent in the first minute after the siren.

The hashtag #Origin was not only trending in Australia, but New Zealand and UK fans were also heavily tweeting about the game, which kicked off at lunch time in Europe.

Thanks to my wife flicking to Masterchef and Offspring I keep seeing Asher Keddie scoring a try with a blue cheese mousse. #origin

Beard gets 1st Origin try. Beard gets Eurovision. #beard #origin

Overheard in #qlder sheds at halftime: banjos. #Origin #uptheblues

Right, now to start planning to beat the Blues in game 2. Step 1. Find 18 players still in one piece. #Origin

I think #Origin was the winner tonig..... Naa go the #Blues

Cronk gone. Cherry-Evans looks gone. I think it's time QLD. It's time to bring back Alfie Langer. You know it makes sense #Origin #QLDER

Just like the end result, the #UpTheBlues hashtag won the internet battle against #QLDER 57 per cent to 43 per cent.

This has been the first time Blues fans were able to tweet about a game one victory in Queensland since Twitter was created.

The drought will soon be over - #UpTheBlues!

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