14,000 Tweets Sent During First Twitter Presidential Debate [STATS]

US Republicans met on Twitter yesterday to participate in a Presidential debate. During the 1.5 hours they spent discussing issues like the economy and jobs, the public sent 14,000 tweets to the candidates, and 22,400 unique visitors went to the 140TownHall.com website to watch the debate unfold in real-time.

During the debate, 4,495 @mentions were sent by members of the public, with Michele Bachmann getting the most at 1,238. Herman Cain got the lion’s share of the retweets, taking 1,211 of the total 4,946.

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