Social media played a much larger role in this year's national political conventions than ever before.

Millions of people took to Twitter to discuss the speeches in real time, offering a new way to measure political impact: Tweets per minute.
= 10,000 tweets per minute
America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder, but it leads to a better place. Yes, our road is longer, but we travel it together.
Peak tweets per minute
52,757
He knew, that no matter how tough the decisions he had to make in the Oval Office were, families all over America had to make decisions every bit as tough for them - as they sat around their kitchen tables.
Peak tweets per minute
17,932
And he [Obama] believes that when you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. No, you reach back - and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.
Peak tweets per minute
28,003
[Obama] has laid the foundation for a new, modern, successful economy of shared prosperity. And if you will renew the president's contract, you will feel it. You will feel it.
Peak tweets per minute
22,087
Hope and Change had a powerful appeal... [But] you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
14,289
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
6,669
It's the moms who have always had to work a little harder to make everything right. It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together.
6,195
I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to [be] the president, anyway... They are always devil's advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that. You know all that stuff. But, I think it is maybe time - what do you think - for maybe a businessman. How about that?
7,044
Credits:
Capital News Service.

Research by Dana Amihere. Numbers according to Twitter.

Design by Greg Kohn.

Photo Credits: Austen Hufford, Chad Cassin, Gage Skidmore, World Economic Forum, Marc Nozell, BlatantWorld.com, WisPolitics.com, BrandFlair.