Watch the Michelle Obama Speech That Destroyed Twitter [VIDEO]

Source: Mashable.com

Michelle Obama’s Tuesday night speech about her husband and the Obama family at the Democratic National Convention drove 28,003 tweets-per-minute at its peak, nearly double the 14,289 mark reached by Mitt Romney‘s acceptance speech at the Republican convention last week.

Obama’s speech, intended to illustrate the differences between her husband and his Republican challenger, played well on Twitter. It had plenty of short, snackable lines easily packed into 140 characters or less.

This tweet, from the Obama campaign, saw more than 2,000 retweets:

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Michelle Obama on POTUS: “He wants every young person to fulfill their promise and be able to attend college without a mountain of debt.”
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And this was destined to be the most well-remembered and oft-cited line of the night:

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"Being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are." - @MichelleObama #dnc2012
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Millions of people watching or listening to Obama’s speech chimed in before, during and after on Twitter, voicing varied viewpoints:

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Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/09/05/michelle-obama-speech/

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Video of her full DNC speech at the link.