{"id":1193,"date":"2012-09-07T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T06:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2012-09-07T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T06:02:13","slug":"obamas-speech-blows-up-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/07\/obamas-speech-blows-up-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Speech Blows up Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the Twitter government and politics team<\/a><\/span>, President Obama set a Twitter political record by driving 52,757 tweets per minute during his 38-minute convention speech Thursday night. The team added<\/a> that his line, “I’m no longer just the candidate, I’m the President,” spurred the second biggest TPM spike for\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Obama<\/span> <\/span>with 43,646 tweets-per-minute, while “I will never turn Medicare into a voucher” scored<\/a> the third highest with 39,002 TPM. The peak figure translates to almost 880 tweets-per-second, or total nonsense if you don’t believe Twitter has a role in shaping people’s attitudes about political moments.<\/span><\/p>\n

By comparison<\/a>, <\/span><\/span>the First Lady peaked at 28,003 tweets per minute during her speech, with Bill Clinton at 22,087<\/span>, while Romney topped out at only 14,289 TPM during his acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Obama campaign is certainly keyed into Twitter political chatter: The campaign noticed that users were mocking Joe Biden’s affection for the word “folks,” and abuse of the word “literally,” so they turned it into lemonade. The Washington Post<\/i> reports<\/a> that the\u00c2\u00a0 campaign took out an ad on the word “literally,” causing a promoted @BarackObama tweet to appear when users searched the word.<\/p>\n

Twitter has grown substantially since 2008 when Obama ran for and won the presidency. That year, users sent 300,000 tweets per day, according to the Telegraph<\/em>.<\/a> On the company’s sixth birthday this March, it announced<\/a> that its 140 million active users dispatched an astonishing 340 million tweets a day. Some users much more often than others, like Alec Baldwin who opined<\/a> on the state of the race on Twitter yesterday, writing, “If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.”<\/span>
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via Daily Intel http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/09\/obamas-speech-twitter-politics-record.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Twitter government and politics team, President Obama set a Twitter political record by driving 52,757 tweets per minute during his 38-minute convention speech Thursday night. The team added that his line, “I’m no longer just the candidate, I’m the President,” spurred the second biggest TPM spike for\u00c2\u00a0Obama with 43,646 tweets-per-minute, while “I … <\/p>\n

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