New Pope Fails to Beat Obama's Twitter Record

If it felt like your Twitter feed earlier Wednesday was nothing but tweets about the new pope, well ... that's because it probably was.

Twitter said it had seen some 7 million tweets related to the new pontiff, a number that seems sure to grow by the end of the day. At its peak, the papal tweeting reached a crescendo of 132,000 tweets per minute.

That's not quite a groundbreaking number, howeverPresident Obama's 2012 election victory set the record at 237,000 tweets per minute back in November. Some 20 million tweets were sent on election night.

If a new pope can't beat that number, we doubt anything will for some time.