Following a week of controversy and scandal, the second US presidential debate got ugly fast on Sunday night, as the rancor turned it into the most tweeted debate of all time.
By Dan Patterson | Terry Collins | October 10, 2016, 5:27 AM PST
This article was originally published on CNET.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton sparred Sunday night in one of the most contentious debates in modern political history.
Followers of each presidential candidate, unsurprisingly, took the contest online.
The 90-minute duel between the real-estate mogul and seasoned Washington veteran, with just a month to go before Election Day 2016, was the most-tweeted political debate in the 10 years of Twitter, the social network said Sunday. More than 17 million debate-related tweets were sent during the contest and nearly 30 million tweets throughout the course of the day.
Voters were eager to see how Republican nominee Donald Trump would respond to a crumbling presidential campaign, which took a new hit last week with revelations of crude remarks he had made about women. Others were eager to see if his Democratic challengerHillary Clinton would go for the
