The 17 most memorable tweets of 2012

This year we sent a rover to Mars, re-elected President Obama, and endured the storm of the century — and Twitter recorded all of it

On Nov. 6, President Obama tweeted out this photo with the message "Four more years." It was retweeted more than 800,000 times.
(Image credit: Twitter.com/Barack Obama)

This has been a big year for Twitter. The platform saw its active user base rise to more than 200 million people. The 2012 presidential election became the most tweeted-about political event ever, with 20 million tweets. The London Olympics generated more than 150 million tweets. 2012 even saw the invention of Twitter toilet paper. And of course, it was on everyone's favorite fast-paced social network that so much of this year's news broke and played out, in bursts of 140 characters or less. Here, a look back at some of the most memorable Twitter moments of 2012:

1. The deepest tweet

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Jessica Hullinger

Jessica Hullinger is a writer and former deputy editor of The Week Digital. Originally from the American Midwest, she completed a degree in journalism at Indiana University Bloomington before relocating to New York City, where she pursued a career in media. After joining The Week as an intern in 2010, she served as the title’s audience development manager, senior editor and deputy editor, as well as a regular guest on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. Her writing has featured in other publications including Popular Science, Fast Company, Fortune, and Self magazine, and she loves covering science and climate-related issues.