The Presidential Debate

Are you surprised to find out that last night’s presidential debate was the most tweeted political event in US history? Considering where Twitter has come from in the past four years, its no surprise as the micro-blogging platform has seem millions of new users join the site and become active. During last night’s 90-minute performance, twitter generated over 10.3 Million tweets. However, as much as we love talking about the important issues in the debate, the breakout topic during last’s debate was “Big Bird” when Mitt Romney said he “Loved Big Bird but government funding PBS has to go.” Over 17K tweets per minute for Big Bird and 10K for PBS.