On social media, a lack of interest in Syria.
Since chemicals weapons were used in Syria on Aug. 21, there have been 12.2 million tweets mentioning Syria, according to Twitter. (Note: This was before President Obama's speech.)
This number includes "syria," "#Syria," "siria," "damascus," "#unsg," "chemical weapons," "assad," "#assad," "assads," "#prayforpeace," or "#talksyria."
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To contrast, there were 18,495,883 tweets about the VMAs ON ONE NIGHT.
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The number of "tweets per minute" — which Twitter uses to measure engagement — about Obama and Syria peaked at 1,553 TPM on Aug. 31 at 1:58 p.m.
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When Miley Cyrus was twerking on Robin Thicke, there were 306,100 TPM.
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