First lady ignites more tweets than Romney

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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama waves as she arrives to address delegates during the first session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 4, 2012.

By Suzanne Choney

Michelle Obama knocked one out of the park at the Democratic National Convention, but also knocked it out of the Twitterverse.

Her speech on Tuesday, the first night of the convention, resulted in more than 3 million tweets including the hashtag of #DNC2012 and related terms.

In comparison, "there were 4 million tweets sent throughout the three days of last week?s Republican National Convention (#RNC2012)," wrote Adam Sharp, head of government, news, and social innovation on Twitter's blog.

Among the Democrats keynote speakers, the first lady's speech peaked at 28,003 tweets per minute (TPM) at the end of her talk ? "nearly double Republican candidate Mitt Romney?s (@MittRomney) 14,289 peak," Sharp wrote. "One line in her speech ... ?we've got so much more to do? ? saw 22,004 tweets per minute."

Another DNC speaker, San Antonio mayor Julian Castro (@JulianCastro), had a tweets-per-minute peak of 11,503, and? "drove more Twitter conversation than anny #GOP2012 speaker except for" Romney."

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (@DevalPatrick) and Maryland Gov. Martin O?Malley (@GovernorOMalley) "also drove strong conversations on Twitter, with 6,909 and 7,502 peak TPM respectively," Sharp wrote.

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Actor Kal Penn, tweeting from near the stage at the Democratic National Convention.

Actor Kal Penn ("House" and "Harold & Kumar"), another DNC speaker, who worked for the Obama administration for a year in the White House's Office of Public Engagement, tweeted from the convention and also garnered Twitter props.

"He tweeted his view ? and his #sexyface ? from backstage," Sharp said, adding that "#sexyface became its own trending topic with nearly 2,000 TPM."

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