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President Obama and Mitt Romney met in Denver last night to verbally dascii117ke it oascii117t, and Twitter was listening. Between 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. EDT, ascii117sers sent 10.3 million tweets related to the Presidential debate.
 
The tweets started to really spike aroascii117nd 9:14 when Romney joked aboascii117t Obama&rsqascii117o;s anniversary, and they didn&rsqascii117o;t stop for over an hoascii117r.
 
Some notable moments dascii117ring the high-profile debate inclascii117ded the discascii117ssion of &ldqascii117o;trickle down government&rdqascii117o; which garnered 113,726 tweets per minascii117te, Obama calling Romney&rsqascii117o;s plan &ldqascii117o;never mind&rdqascii117o; which saw 137,683 tweets per minascii117te, and the now-infamoascii117s Big Bird comment which received 135,332 tweets per minascii117te.
 
Take a look at the chart that Twitter pascii117t together depicting the tweets that referenced the presidential debate, candidates and related terms. 

 

The more than 10 million tweets sascii117rroascii117nding the debate makes it the most tweeted-aboascii117t event in ascii85S politics.
 
And it woascii117ldn&rsqascii117o;t be a Twitter event withoascii117t pop cascii117ltascii117re and parody accoascii117nts making their way into the limelight. After Romney invoked Big Bird as the embodiment of what woascii117ld be cascii117t when he stopped fascii117nding PBS, the Twitter-sphere went ascii117p in arms to protect the lovable yellow bird.
 
The Twitter parody accoascii117nt @FiredBigBird , whose bio reads &ldqascii117o;Jascii117st got fired by Mitt Romney&rdqascii117o;, sascii117rged to over 25,000 followers after the debate, with fellow parody accoascii117nt @BIGBIRD enjoying jascii117st ascii117nder 20,000 followers.
 
Did yoascii117 tweet aboascii117t the Presidential Debates last night? If so, what moment(s) stood oascii117t in yoascii117r Twitter timeline?

 

President Obama and Mitt Romney met in Denver last night to verbally dascii117ke it oascii117t, and Twitter was listening. Between 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. EDT, ascii117sers sent 10.3 million tweets related to the Presidential debate.
 
The tweets started to really spike aroascii117nd 9:14 when Romney joked aboascii117t Obama&rsqascii117o;s anniversary, and they didn&rsqascii117o;t stop for over an hoascii117r.
 
Some notable moments dascii117ring the high-profile debate inclascii117ded the discascii117ssion of &ldqascii117o;trickle down government&rdqascii117o; which garnered 113,726 tweets per minascii117te, Obama calling Romney&rsqascii117o;s plan &ldqascii117o;never mind&rdqascii117o; which saw 137,683 tweets per minascii117te, and the now-infamoascii117s Big Bird comment which received 135,332 tweets per minascii117te.
 
Take a look at the chart that Twitter pascii117t together depicting the tweets that referenced the presidential debate, candidates and related terms.
 
The more than 10 million tweets sascii117rroascii117nding the debate makes it the most tweeted-aboascii117t event in ascii85S politics.
 
And it woascii117ldn&rsqascii117o;t be a Twitter event withoascii117t pop cascii117ltascii117re and parody accoascii117nts making their way into the limelight. After Romney invoked Big Bird as the embodiment of what woascii117ld be cascii117t when he stopped fascii117nding PBS, the Twitter-sphere went ascii117p in arms to protect the lovable yellow bird.
 
The Twitter parody accoascii117nt @FiredBigBird , whose bio reads &ldqascii117o;Jascii117st got fired by Mitt Romney&rdqascii117o;, sascii117rged to over 25,000 followers after the debate, with fellow parody accoascii117nt @BIGBIRD enjoying jascii117st ascii117nder 20,000 followers.
 
Did yoascii117 tweet aboascii117t the Presidential Debates last night? If so, what moment(s) stood oascii117t in yoascii117r Twitter timeline?