Obama Draws Biggest Convention TV Audience, Twitter Record
President Barack Obama’s acceptance speech on Thursday night drew the largest television audience of this year’s political conventions and ranked as the biggest political moment ever on social media site Twitter.
More than 35.7 million people tuned in on three broadcast and 10 cable networks to watch Obama accept the Democrats’ nomination for president, according to Nielsen ratings data.
While TV audiences for political conventions have dropped sharply over the years, Obama’s TV audience was only slightly lower from his 2008 acceptance speech, which attracted 38.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
For Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s speech last week, 30.3 million people watched on television.
On social media, the number of tweets about the Democratic convention blew away similar figures from the Republican National Convention a week earlier.