Last weekend's election was unique for lots of reasons. One of them was the way that social media played such a huge part in it. Twitter in particular was a hugely powerful resource for updating people around the country and getting everyone's responses to what was happening.

On the channel 7 set we had a whole team of guys monitoring the Twitter responses, looking at the trends, posting the news. Mel and I were busy during the breaks on our iPhones sending out tweets. If ever you needed a signal of it being the way of the future, this was it. And Australia jumped on board.

Huge amounts of people wrote in saying that they were getting their election coverage purely from the Twitter and Facebook updates. The Twitter homepage keeps tabs on worldwide trends and what is being tweeted the most. Well at one point, "Wyatt Roy" was the most tweeted keyword around the whole word! This is a spot usually held by Justin Bieber or whoever is in the news with 14 year old girls. He was followed by 5 other keywords related to our election making up the top 10 most-tweeted worldwide.

Towards the end of the night we got thousands of tweets coming in asking what a hung parliament was, so we were able to respond to the questions on air. It worked very well and was great fun being able to interact with the viewers around the country.

We weren't alone of course. Plenty of media, journalists and political experts were tweeting all night. Some were great, some were funny. Here are a few of the best tweets from the night, plus the Taiwanese youtube vid that everyone was laughing at:

@craigthomler "Australian Sex Party celebrating well-hung Australian parliament #ausvotes"

@DavidCampbell73: I know I am a new father but I want to burp Wyatt Roy... #ausvotes

@_sarahwilson_ No sign of the Ruddbot. Kevin07 the human is back. Nice to see!

@fifi_box is in hospital - has had a severe allergic reaction to a spray tan... red all over like a lobster.

@_sarahwilson_ Crazy Taiwanese animation overview of Julia v Tony (with Croc Harry deciding the winner) http://ow.ly/2sFzz

@miafreedman Oh dear. I have children who look older than #Wyatt Roy.

@wilanderson I trust Julia Gillard when she says she's all about creating jobs. I mean the one she has now wasn't available, but she "created" a vacancy.

@miafreedman ......and the first barney has just broken out at our election party.....

@deptofinternets Just voted. There were no militias or suicide bombings. There were sausages and a cake stand. Voting in Australia is awesome. #AusVotes

@sunriseon7 RT @LiberalAus: It's time to stand up and take real action. Vote Liberal! / This was just tweeted. Seriously! - tweeted at 10:30pm.

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