The top three most-tweeted moments of the GOP debate

Thursday’s GOP debate got off to an eye-popping start, yet Donald Trump’s bragging about his penis size wasn’t even one of the top three most-tweeted moments of the raucous stage rumble.

According to Twitter, the most-tweeted moment of the night was when Marco Rubio went after Trump University, calling it a “scam.”

The second was Rubio’s joke about yoga after Ted Cruz first implored Trump to “breathe.”

The third? Trump calling Rubio “little Marco.”

Also from Twitter, Trump gained the most new followers during the debate, but the fourth candidate on stage — the one who didn’t partake in any of the most rollicking moments — gained the second-most: John Kasich.

The candidate with the third-most follower growth? Hillary Clinton, who will most likely face one of the four in November. That probably had something to do with this tweet, the most-retweeted of the debate:

And finally, no GOP debate Twitter wrap would be complete without acknowleding — gingerly — the online conversation about Ted Cruz’s Lip.

While it didn’t make Twitter’s official list, the interwebs positively lit up with one question: What was on Ted Cruz’s lip?

In case you were blissfully unaware, during the debate, something small appeared on the Texas senator’s lip, until — with the briefest of pauses — he ate it off and continued making his point. Speculate away.

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