Binders Dominate Twitter Activity, Google Searches in Presidential Debate

Netizens were abuzz with talk of binders after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's reference to "binders full of women" during Tuesday night's presidential debate.

The phrase became Google's number-three trending query for the night, after "who is winning the debate" and "live debate," according to Google Politics's Twitter feed. Indeed, search interest in the word "binders" increased by 425% during the debate's first hour, Google Politics said.

As for Twitter, "binder" (along with "pension") also emerged as a trending topic, and naturally inspired parody accounts such as this one:

Boy, I'm full of women! #debates— Romney's Binder (@RomneysBinder) October 17, 2012…
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