Paul Ryan Helps Push Republican Convention Over 2 Million Tweets

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's Wednesday night Republican National Convention speech was a powerful conversation driver on Twitter. It pushed overall tweets about the RNC to more than two million as he took the stage -- six times the number of tweets sent during both 2008 conventions combined.

Ryan also topped the RNC tweets-per-minute record set the previous night by Ann Romney, with 6,669 tweets-per-minute as he left the stage to Ann's 6,195 at the end of her Tuesday speech.

According to Twitter, the shorter, punchier and more "snackable" quotes from Ryan's speech drove the conversation. The most tweeted-about moments during Ryan's speech generally matched the highest-en…
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