Social media was a craze last night for the 2012 Election with record-breaking statistics spanning from Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. Here are a few to remember along with a couple of political firsts and interesting facts:

• 657,318+ — The record breaking number of retweets now held by President Obama for his celebratory tweet. He also holds the record for most-liked photo (3,457,364+ million) on Facebook for the same image as of Wednesday morning:
  

  Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…

  — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012

• 31.7 million– The number of tweets posted making last night’s election the most-tweeted-about event in U.S. political history

• 327,452 — The number of tweets per minute at its peak

• MittRomney.com — Governor Romney‘s website streamed President Obama’s acceptance speech

•  @BaddieBey — Beyonce created an Instagram account just to post two photos in support of Obama. Here’s the first one:

Instagram/@baddiebey

• The top 5 terms mentioned on Facebook last night during the election:

1. Obama
2. 4 more years / 4 years
3. President / President Obama
4. Thank God
5. Won / Wins

• Colorado & Washington — First two states to legalize recreational marijuana

• Maryland, Maine & Washington — First states to legalize marriage equality

• Tammy Baldwin — The first openly gay member of the United States Senate representing Wisconsin
• Grace Meng– First Asian American to represent New York in Congress

• Tammy Duckworth — First female combat veteran elected into Congress representing Illinois

• Maggie Hassan — Will be the only pro-choice Democratic woman governor in the United States

Sources: mashable.com, Twitter, Facebook, Emilyslist.org, CNN, Instagram