The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games Friday night prompted 109 million interactions from 52 million Facebook users and 52 million interactions from 21 million Instagram users.
Facebook said in an email to SocialTimes that 15 million users in host country Brazil were responsible for 40 million interactions, while the U.S. saw 23 million interactions from 12 million users.
The countries with the highest percentage of monthly active users who engaged with the Opening Ceremony on Facebook were:

Brazil: 13 percent
Argentina: 7 percent
Mexico: 7 percent
U.S.: 6 percent
Peru: 5 percent

And the post that drew the most engagement came from Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal:

As for Instagram, the top hashtags used in posts related to the Opening Ceremony were:
#rio2016
#olympics
#olimpiadas2016
#rio
#olimpiadas
#riodejaneiro
#brasil
#openingceremony
#olympics2016
#brazil

The top emoji were:

The most-viewed video came from Jay Blankenau, a volleyball player for Team Canada:

We made it. The Olympics XXXI ? ? ? #olympics #rio2016 #canada #teamcanada #rio #brazil #olympicgames #volleyball
A video posted by Jay Blankenau (@jblanks9) on Aug 5, 2016 at 6:04pm PDT

And the photo that drew the most likes came from Brazilian actress Marina Barbosa:

#olympics2016
A photo posted by Marina Ruy Barbosa (@marinaruybarbosa) on Aug 5, 2016 at 6:35pm PDT

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