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"Barack Obama's celebratory messages on Twitter and Facebook rapidly went viral Tuesday evening, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes, shares and retweets in short order.\nOne of Obama's three tweets immediately following the victory quickly became his most retweeted ever, per @gov. As of this post, it has 267,410 retweets.\n\nFour more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st\u2026\n\u2014 Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012\n\n\nMinutes after winning re-election for a second term, @barackobama has his most retweeted tweet ever. twitter.com/BarackObama/st\u2026\n\u2014 Twitter Government (@gov) November 7, 2012\n\nOver on Facebook, the same photo already has more than 857,000 likes and 120,000 shares just over a half an hour since it was posted:\n\n\nIt stands within reason that the Facebook photo will gain more than one million likes within an hour of being posted. Update: Indeed, the image topped 1 million likes 53 minutes after being posted.\nMitt Romney has yet to post anything online \u2014 which makes sense, as the campaign has not yet conceded defeat.\nMore Coverage of Election 2012\n\nBarack Obama Tweets Victory in 2012 Presidential Election\nYes, We GIFed: Obama\u2019s Animated Election Victory Celebration\nDonald Trump Freaks Out on Twitter After Obama Wins Election\nA Look Inside the Obama and Romney Headquarters on Election Night [PICS]\n15 Funny \u2018Moving to Canada\u2019 Tweets for Election Night\nObama\u2019s Victory Tweet Is His Most Retweeted Ever\nKarl Rove Refuses to Accept Obama\u2019s Election Win [VIDEO]\nWatch Mitt Romney Deliver His Concession Speech [VIDEO]\n\n\n\n\nMashable explores the trends changing politics in 2012 and beyond in Politics Transformed: The High Tech Battle for Your Vote, an in-depth look at how digital media is reshaping democracy. Read a few of the top posts from the series:\n\nElection 2040: The First President for Digital Natives\nVoter Data: What the Candidates Know About You\nHow to Market the Next President\nGaffesplosion: The Unrelenting Hype of Modern Politics\nHow Social Media Can Safeguard Your Vote\n\nTake it with you, buy  Politics Transformed: The High Tech Battle for Your Vote on e-book and get access to four exclusive interviews!\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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