As soon as the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency was released on Tuesday, journalists and bloggers around the world began to parse it on Twitter, pointing to passages they found remarkable or outrageous and sharing their reactions to its findings.

That discussion soon made #TortureReport a globally trending topic on the social network, with more than 77,000 mentions of that tag and the related #CIAReport on Twitter by midafternoon, according to data compiled by Brandwatch, a technology firm that tracks discussions on social networks.

While about 70 percent of the conversation took place in the United States — where it revealed a sharp, partisan divide on the subject — there were also reaction and commentary from many other countries.