Presidential debate most tweeted event in US political history
Two statistics from Twitter Government - @gov:
- Tonight's debate was the most tweeted about event in US political history, topping the numbers from the RNC and DNC.
- 17,000 Tweets per minute for "Big Bird" and 10,000 Tweets per minute for "PBS".
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