Since chemicals weapons were used in Syria on Aug. 21, there have been 12.2 million tweets mentioning Syria, according to Twitter. (Note: This was before President Obama's speech.)
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This number includes "syria," "#Syria," "siria," "damascus," "#unsg," "chemical weapons," "assad," "#assad," "assads," "#prayforpeace," or "#talksyria."
To contrast, there were 18,495,883 tweets about the VMAs ON ONE NIGHT.
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The number of "tweets per minute" — which Twitter uses to measure engagement — about Obama and Syria peaked at 1,553 TPM on Aug. 31 at 1:58 p.m.
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When Miley Cyrus was twerking on Robin Thicke, there were 306,100 TPM.
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There have been 229,704 tweets mentioning Congress and Syria in the Aug. 21 to Sept. 10 timeframe.
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During NSYNC's performance at the VMAs, there were 219,800 tweets PER MINUTE.
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There have been 281,498 tweets using the #prayforpeace hashtag about the Pope’s call for peace in Syria since the chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21.
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When Drake performed at the VMAs there were 194,500 TPM.
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There have been 204,974 tweets mentioning Secretary of State John Kerry and Syria since the chemical weapons attack.
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There were 467,217 tweets about the VMA pre-show.
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Since chemical weapons were used in Syria on Aug. 21, there have been 1,277,365 tweets mentioning Assad.
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Google recorded over 10 million searches for Miley Cyrus the day after the VMAs.
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