Barack Obama putting up a passionate defence of his record in office, tried to point out the importance and the differences between his platform and that of challenger Mitt Romney. Making this clear during his nomination acceptance speech delivered Thursday evening which was widely and wildly popular on Twitter, getting an apex of about 52,757 tweets per minute — some analyst say a new politics-related record for the platform.
That may have pushed overall tweets about the Democratic National Convention past the unexpected 9 million mark, and this stands at more than double the number sent about last week’s Republican Convention.
here are Obama’s most popular line, according to Twitter from some top respectable companies, citizens, politicians etc. This, with 43,646 retweets:
The speech was also peppered with other short, tweetable lines:
and this tweet from an official campaign account received more than 18,000 retweets:
however note that Just because the president’s speech was popular on Twitter doesn’t mean the entire conversation was positive — both Obama’s supporters and his detractors were actively tweeting throughout the address:
but non the less, Various DNC speakers trended on Twitter through the evening, and #Foward2012 was a trending topic throughout the day after being purchased by the Obama campaign. After the speech, “#IfObamaDontWin” began trending organically. However, most of the global trending topics involved the MTV Video Music Awards, which also took place Thursday.
Recently however, The Republican National Committee (RNC) put together a video titled "We've Heard It All Before" that compared portions of the President's speech in 2012 to his 2008 campaign speeches. The video concludes with the text "Same speeches. Same promises. Are you better off?"
Read more at http://www.mstarz.com/articles/4727/20120910/obama-dnc-speech-republicans-diss-president-reusing-same-video.htm#Zg25HBpIMRqHvqhm.99
Recently however, The Republican National Committee (RNC) put together a video titled "We've Heard It All Before" that compared portions of the President's speech in 2012 to his 2008 campaign speeches. The video concludes with the text "Same speeches. Same promises. Are you better off?"
Read more at http://www.mstarz.com/articles/4727/20120910/obama-dnc-speech-republicans-diss-president-reusing-same-video.htm#Zg25HBpIMRqHvqhm.99
kudos to his campaign team and whoever writes his speeches...
