Major moments of Hofstra University debate

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President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney debated in a town hall format Tuesday night as America watched. Twitter broke a milestone that night when 1 million tweets had been sent about the debate before it even ended. The official tweet count at the end of the debate: 7.2 million.

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