6 tweets that dominated this election

Relive the memories.
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#Election2016 is winding down. Even after the polls close and a winner is declared, the endless tweets and posts will remain up for digital posterity.

Twitter rounded up the top tweets from both presidential candidates in case you forgot about Trump's 3 a.m. Twitter rants or Hillary Clinton's effort to look digitally savvy to connect with millennials.

Here are the three most retweeted messages from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's official accounts.


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Trump

1. Trump will never miss a chance to talk about Clinton's emails.

2. Even after Melania Trump's Republican National Convention speech fiasco, Trump couldn't stay off Twitter.

3. Finally, an oldie but goodie from Trump denying climate change, which the Clinton campaign re-posted during the first debate.

Clinton

1. Clinton was fed up with Trump's Twitter shenanigans months ago. This quippy response was also the most retweeted tweet of this entire election.

2. The three debates provided plenty of social media fodder. This was from the first debate when Trump inevitably contradicted himself.

3. Hillary announced to the world she was running. This was before she knew she'd be up against the tweet-machine that is Trump.

In what's been dubbed the Twitter Election, about 1 billion tweets were sent by people in the United States about the election since August 2015, which is when the primary debates started.

So. Many. Tweets.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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