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Politics

Obama Speech Breaks Twitter Record

Almost 58,000 tweets per minute

Reason Staff | 9.7.2012 7:16 AM

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CHARLOTTE: Barack Obama's prime-time address to the nation accepting the Democratic presidential nomination for 2012 broke a new Twitter record Thursday for political traffic, the site said.

"A new record political moment on Twitter: @barackobama drives 52,757 Tweets per minute. Over 9 million Tweets sent about #DNC2012," the micro-blogging site tweeted.

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