Vince McMahon set out to make Wrestlemania XXVIII last weekend the "social media event of the year." Mashable.com has a new article online looking at the show's social media statiscs. Below is an excerpt from their article:

• A partnership with YouTube to deliver Wrestlemania content gained a total of more than 3.9 million views for the week surrounding the event.
• Despite being a pay-per-view broadcast, Wrestlemania was TV’s most socially engaged program on April 1, according to Trendrr.
• The hashtag #Wrestlemania was mentioned more than 610,000 times on April 1.
• The high level of social engagement delivered record traffic to WWE.com, and a 30% increase over traffic during Wrestlemania the year before.

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Thanks to Wrestling News World reader Logan Walker for sending in the link.