The Most Retweeted RNC Tweets Were Not From Republican Supporters

Twitter has had a major impact on this year's presidential election, and the Republican National Convention is no exception to the phenomenon. There were more tweets about the event on its first day, than during the entire 2008 convention.

Several prominent Republicans, including Mitt Romney's wife Ann and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, took the stage in Tampa, Florida Tuesday night to deliver speeches. The most-tweeted moment of the night? Twitter reported 6,195 tweets per minute when Mitt joined Ann on stage.

Nearly every word was live-tweeted and fact-checked by journalists, mocked by comedians and rebutted by Democrats. Unfortunately for the Romney campaign, the top 10 mos…
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