As Barack Obama was re-elected for #4moreyears and now has #2Termz in office, this year's U.S. Presidential elections saw some jaw-dropping firsts for Twitter.
According to the Twitter blog, the US elections were the most-tweeted event in Twitter history. Traffic hit an all-time peak of 327,452 tweets per minute at 11:19pm ET.
And minutes after various media outlets in the US projected Obama winning the elections, the President's account tweeted a picture of Obama hugging his wife, Michelle, with the caption "Four more years." This got nearly half a million retweets within two hours, the most for his account and any election-related post.
The tweet currently has 528,292 retweets and 179,051 favorites and is the most popular of all time.
Interesting Trends
A record total of 31 million tweets were registered on Election Day. Users were encouraged to use the hashtag #election2012 for election-related news and information. Twitter government also set up a dedicated page for the hashtag, which curated tweets, videos and photos from the election and refreshed in real-time.
Also, election-related topics dominated Twitter trends in most parts of the world. Besides #Election2012, popular trends during the polling were #ElectionDay, #TeamObama and #TeamRomney.
As an Obama win was projected towards the end of electoral vote tallying, #2Termz, #4MoreYears, #Obama2012 and #MyPresidentIsBlack took the top spots in the Worldwide Twitter trends.
Election fever even reached tweeps in the Philippines. The terms 'Barack Obama', 'Romney', 'USA' and #USElections were trending topics in the country.
Awwww Obama
Netizens showed their funny side as they waited for official announcements, trending #SongsObamaIsPlayingRightNow.
The term 'Awwww Obama' also trended in the US after Obama mentioned his wife Michelle in his victory speech, thanking her for standing by him through 20 years of marriage. — DVM, GMA News
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/281396/scitech/socialmedia/election2012-breaks-records-on-twitter
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