Clinton-Obama hug photo goes viral on Instagram

On the night Hillary Clinton made history by accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, the world wasn’t just watching at home passively as it had in past elections, but speaking out and reacting in real time over social media.

Data from Instagram, Twitter and other services also indicate which moments from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia resonated with the American people.

For instance, the picture that Clinton shared of herself and President Obama embracing after he delivered an impassioned speech in support of her candidacy Wednesday night became the most-liked Instagram photo (146,000) from any candidate in this presidential race. It is captioned, “We love you back, President Obama.”

Previously, the most-liked photo was of Donald Trump eating McDonald’s French fries and a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke on a private jet from May. He was chowing down on the fast food to celebrate reaching 1,237 delegates — the figure needed to clinch the GOP’s nomination.

Just weeks before, the master brander garnered loads of attention — and 126,000 Instagram likes — by celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a similar picture featuring a taco bowl from Trump Tower Grill.

According to Twitter’s government and elections team, the most retweeted post from Thursday, the fourth and final day of the DNC, was Obama reaffirming his confidence in Clinton’s ability to be his successor.

The runner-up for the most retweeted from the fourth day of the convention was a picture of Clinton, from her account, watching her daughter Chelsea’s speech from the green room.

The top three most-mentioned moments from the DNC on Thursday were, in order: when Clinton questioned Trump’s temperament by saying, “A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”; when she said, “Here’s the sad truth: There is no other Donald Trump. This is it”; and when she concluded her speech.

Twitter also revealed the most-mentioned DNC speakers, in order: Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Khizr Khan and Katy Perry. Khan, the father of a Muslim U.S. soldier, gave an impassioned speech in which he denounced Trump and accused the mogul of having not read the Constitution.

Twitter provided similar data about the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, last week. The top-mentioned speakers at that convention were, in order: Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump, entrepreneur Peter Thiel and RNC chairman Reince Priebus.

The top retweet from the Republican confab, however, came from someone on the other side of the aisle — former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

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