Barack Obama delivered a passionate defense of his record in office, and emphasized the differences between his platform and that of challenger Mitt Romney during his nomination acceptance speech delivered Thursday evening.
The speech was wildly popular on Twitter, peaking at 52,757 tweets per minute — a new politics-related record for the platform.
That pushed overall tweets about the Democratic National Convention past the 9 million mark, more than double the number sent about last week's Republican Convention.
Obama's most popular line, according to Twitter? This, with 43,646 retweets:
"I'm no longer just a candidate, I'm the president." – @barackobama, to thunderous applause #dnc2012
— Mashable US & World (@mashusworld) September 7, 2012
The speech was also peppered with other short, tweetable lines:
"The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place." – @barackobama #dnc2012
— Mashable US & World (@mashusworld) September 7, 2012
"Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did." – @barackobama #dnc2012
— Mashable US & World (@mashusworld) September 7, 2012
"If you share that faith with me, if you share that hope with me, I ask you tonight for your vote." @barackobama
— Mashable US & World (@mashusworld) September 7, 2012
This tweet from an official campaign account received more than 18,000 retweets:
"No family should have to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don't have the money."—President Obama
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 7, 2012
Just because the president's speech was popular on Twitter doesn't mean the entire conversation was positive — both Obama's supporters and his detractors were actively tweeting throughout the address:
If Obama doesn't win , I'm moving out of the country ?
— Bree †(@theLovelyNiaB) September 7, 2012
Obama has my vote
— Yung Capone (@I_am_Capone) September 7, 2012
Really liked the speech. Barack Obama spoke as our President — and for all of us. Straightforward and honest. We know what we have to do.
— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) September 7, 2012
Obama's speech was so bad I think he knows it's over. Now we just need to send one of the PODs to the WH to help w packing
— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) September 7, 2012
Biggest laugh line of the night: "This isn't about me." Amid O posters, O pins, O idolatry & "I love you Barack" catcalls.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 7, 2012
Various DNC speakers trended on Twitter through the evening, and #Foward2012 was a trending topic throughout the day after being purchased by the Obama campaign. After the speech, "#IfObamaDontWin" began trending organically. However, most of the global trending topics involved the MTV Video Music Awards, which also took place Thursday.
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