Yankees win world series

The world series is breaking news according to The Washington Post -- perhaps others as well.

News Alert
11:50 PM EST Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Yankees capture World Series title

The New York Yankees top the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3, to win the franchise's 27th World Series.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/3873VC/USRZU/P3W2ZB/RB72J9/UBX14/KI/t

There was a 'funny' tweet -- last 9 Yankee titles were in the administrations of Carter, Clinton and Obama. A conspiracy is suspected.

I tried three phrases: yankees win world series, yankees world series, and yankees win title. TweetVolume found these results

The Post 'broke' the story at 11:50 p.m. Eastern. I did not get the search started until about 11:30 p.m. Central. That was a bit late. Archivist found 1500 messages on the first search. They extended back to 10:50 or about the same time The Post sent their breaking news. Perhaps that is when the game was over, and the 1500 is 'the beginning.'

November 8, 2009 and it is time to retire this search. It was breaking news, but not very political. The search produced 4589 hits. There was a peak to over 2,000 the day after the series was over, and it was downhill from that. The final timeline was

The .txt file that can be read by Excel to acquire the data is: yankees win world series.txt