Celebrities add to convention-high Twitter traffic for Obama's speech

President Obama drives a lot of Twitter traffic. 

Obama's speech Thursday night set a new record for political moments on Twitter, according to Twitter.

The president earned 52,757 tweets per minute during his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, a high point for both political conventions and far surpassing the 14,289 tweets per minute Mitt Romney earned for his acceptance speech last Thursday.

The three-day convention earned more than 9.5 million total tweets, according to Twitter, in sharp contrast with about 4 million total for the GOP gathering last week.

Obama, who has the sixth most popular Twitter account in the world, has long been at the forefront of driving tweets-per-minute records for political events, although no political moment has prompted the kind of Twitter traffic that a celebrity event can, such as Beyonce announcing her pregnancy on live TV (prompting 8,868 tweets per second). 

Obama brought plenty of star power to the convention stage, and many celebrities — including some accounts more popular than Obama's, such as Lady Gaga's — added to the tweets about Obama's speech. Some were alternating between comments about Obama and the MTV Video Music Awards, happening the same evening. 

#IfObamaDontWin i say we try to build a new planet and all go live there

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) September 7, 2012

IS HE PREACHING OMG! SO PROUD OF THE #POTUS!!!! BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE! CHECKBOOK OUT! #DNC2012

— octavia spencer (@octaviaspencer) September 7, 2012

“@jaredleto: @oliviawilde and @doncheadle #dnc2012instagr.am/p/PQcYYVzBZO/” John Kerry photobombed us?!

— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) September 7, 2012

Pls turn to DNC if you're not watching.When it's time for you to vote (which is soon) this will help you make a decision.

— Janelle Monae (@JanelleMonae) September 7, 2012

—Updated at 9:28 a.m.

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