10.3 Million Tweets Sent During Last Night's Presidential Debates

President Obama and Mitt Romney met in Denver last night to verbally duke it out, and Twitter was listening. Between 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. EDT, users sent 10.3 million tweets related to the Presidential debate.

The tweets started to really spike around 9:14 when Romney joked about Obama’s anniversary, and they didn’t stop for over an hour.

Some notable moments during the high-profile debate included the discussion of “trickle down government” which garnered 113,726 tweets per minute, Obama calling Romney’s plan “never mind” which saw 137,683 tweets per minute, and the now-infamous Big Bird comment which received 135,332 tweets per minute.

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