SAN FRANCISCO: From YouTube to Xbox videogame consoles, people tuned into the US presidential debate online and weighed in so intensely that it became Twitter’s hottest US political event.
While those attending the debate between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney agreed to be silent while the men sparred verbally on stage, the Internet raged with comments and critiques.
By half-way through the debate, the top 10 “hashtags” being pegged on messages at Twitter were related to the exchange.
“Tonight’s debate was the most tweeted about event in US political history,” said Twitter, the globally popular one-to-many text messaging service.
Presidential debate an online sensation
