Watch the Michelle Obama Speech That Destroyed Twitter [VIDEO]

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:

Michelle Obama on POTUS: “He wants every young person to fulfill their promise and be able to attend college without a mountain of debt.”— Obama 2012 (@Obama2012) September 5, 2012

And this was destined to be the most well-remembered and oft-cited line of the night:

"Being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are." - @michelleobama #dnc2012— Mashable US & World (@mashusworld) September 5, 2012

Millions of people watching or listening to Obama's speech chimed in before, during and after on Twitter, voicing varied viewpoints:

Inspirational, I love Lady Obama!Transcript of Michelle Obama's speech at the DNC | Fox News fxn.ws/Q40jHD via @foxnewspolitics— Rachel Sevedge (@BityLouHoo) September 5, 2012

Michelle Obama is killing this speech..— Jamal Crawford (@JCrossover) September 5, 2012

I love Michelle Obama. One intelligent woman.— Zarah (@Zarah____) September 5, 2012

Stomach still aching. RT @twitchyteam Gag line: Michelle Obama says hubby doesn't believe in "us versus them" bit.ly/NbHTCQ— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 5, 2012

By the end of its first night, the Democratic Convention as a whole had sparked more than 3 million tweets, nearing the 4 million point reached by the entirety of last week's Republican Convention.

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