Election Night proved to be a big night for President Barack Obama and an even bigger night for social networking site, Twitter, which saw 31 million tweets come in dealing with the election.
According to Twitter, the event caused a peak of 327,452 Tweets per minute (TPM) as news organizations began to call the results of the race in various states.
The four most tweeted-about moments of the night were when the polls closed in a number of states and the AP called the races in IL, CT, ME, DC, DE, RI, MD and Mass. at 8:03 p.m. ET (65,106 TPM); when the PA and WI presidential races were called at 9:33 p.m. ET (69,031 TPM); when the IA presidential race was called at 11:12 p.m. ET (85,273 TPM); and when news networks called President Obama's re-election at 11:19 p.m. ET (327,452 TPM).
The president marked another victory on the social networking site when his victory photo of him hugging wife Michelle with the caption "Four more years" became the most retweeted Tweet in history.
The photo, which received more than 674,400 retweets and 230,067 favorites, also became the most liked photo on Facebook, with over 3.3 million likes and counting.
Twitter also reported that international leaders, including Great Britain's David Cameron, Austrialia's Julia Gillard and Malaysia's Mohd Najib Tun Razak, took time to congratulate Obama on his victory.
On Wednesday, the election-geared tweets continued to pour in. Nationally, Karl Rove, #4moreyears, #Election2012, Colorado and the GOP continued to trend on the site. Rove, a former Bush staffer, called out the media after Obama was deemed the victor of Ohio and the national race during his participation on Fox News. The Republican said the call was made "premature" and did not discount the possibility that Ohio could still go to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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