Michelle Obama's speech ignited Twitterverse more than Romney's

The take by many about first lady Michelle Obama's speech was that it knocked it out of the park, but it also knocked it out of the Twitterverse.

Her speech, on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday, resulted in more than 3 million tweets including the hashtag of #DNC2012 and related terms.

In comparison, "there were 4 million tweets sent throughout the three days of last week’s Republican National Convention (#RNC2012)," wrote Adam Sharp, head of government, news, and social innovation on Twitter's blog.

Among the Democrats keynote speakers, the first lady's speech peaked at 28,003 tweets per minute (TPM) at the end of her talk — "nearly double Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s (@MittRomney) 14,289 peak," Sharp wrote. "One line in her speech ... “we've got so much more to do” — saw 22,004 tweets per minute."

Another DNC speaker, San Antonio mayor Julian Castro (@JulianCastro), had a tweets-per-minute peak of 11,503, and  "drove more Twitter conversation than anny #GOP2012 speaker except for" Romney."

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (@DevalPatrick) and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (@GovernorOMalley) "also drove strong conversations on Twitter, with 6,909 and 7,502 peak TPM respectively," Sharp wrote.

Actor Kal Penn ("House" and "Harold & Kumar"), another DNC speaker, who worked for the Obama administration for a year in the White House's Office of Public Engagement, tweeted from the convention and also garnered Twitter props.

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"He tweeted his view — and his #sexyface — from backstage," Sharp said, adding that "#sexyface became its own trending topic with nearly 2,000 TPM."

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