Twitter has had a major impact on this year's presidential election, and the Republican National Convention is no exception to the phenomenon. There were more tweets about the event on its first day, than during the entire 2008 convention.
Several prominent Republicans, including Mitt Romney's wife Ann and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, took the stage in Tampa, Florida Tuesday night to deliver speeches. The most-tweeted moment of the night? Twitter reported 6,195 tweets per minute when Mitt joined Ann on stage.
Nearly every word was live-tweeted and fact-checked by journalists, mocked by comedians and rebutted by Democrats. Unfortunately for the Romney campaign, the top 10 most retweeted tweets sent Tuesday night about and during the convention weren't quite on-message. Check them out below, in order of most to least popular.
The tweets are courtesy of 140elect.com, which tracks "all tweets about certain keywords related to the Republican National Convention using the Twitter API, then orders them by retweet count," according to founder Zach Green.
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#AnnRomney's speech especially the part about how Mitt can't release taxes cuz her horse ate them. And then Christie ate the horse.— Bill Maher (@billmaher) August 29, 2012
When I said Rick Santorum might not tell the truth, that thing he just said about "waiving the work requirement" for welfare — that was it.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 29, 2012
Tonight Gov. Christie endorses Mitt Romney at the RNC. Say hi to Team Not-Quite-Last-Place: OFA.BO/XRxfuZ, twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 29, 2012
Food stamp recipients: 33% (13.4m) are white, 22% (8.9m) are black, 16.7% (6.6m) are Latino & 2.8% (1.1m) are Asian
#RNC2012— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) August 29, 2012
Here's a fun game: Add "except for the gays" to the end of most of Rick Santorum's sentences and see how often it applies!
— Glenn Howerton (@Glenn_Howerton) August 29, 2012
It's comforting watching the RNC secure in the knowledge that Mitt Romney will never, ever be the President of this awesome country.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) August 29, 2012
SAFE DRINKING GAME: Drink when you see a non-white person in the
#RNC audience.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 29, 2012
Ann's portrayal of her/Mitt being impoverished in college got her in trouble in '94 Sen race.Fact is they lived off Romney stock options.
— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) August 29, 2012
BREAKING: Entire Republican National Convention Stunned As Ann Romney Asks For Divorce onion.com/RWLack
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 29, 2012
Tonight I hope Chris Christie explains why he thinks gay marriage would hurt his state more than Jersey Shore has.
#RNC2012— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) August 28, 2012
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