Since chemicals weapons were used in Syria on Aug. 21, there have been 12.2 million tweets mentioning Syria, according to Twitter. (Note: This was before President Obama's speech.)
To contrast, there were 18,495,883 tweets about the VMAs ON ONE NIGHT.
The number of "tweets per minute" — which Twitter uses to measure engagement — about Obama and Syria peaked at 1,553 TPM on Aug. 31 at 1:58 p.m.