( CNN ) -- Anyone can turn on a TV , scan their newsfeeds or fire up a laptop to get a sense of the important topics being discussed at the Democratic National Convention . This article is not about those important topics . This is for those other moments -- the ones that make us SMH or LOL or unfollow certain people on Twitter . These are the moments that prompt us to show our phones to the person next to us , eyes wide with disbelief and mischief . It 's not news . 1 . Tweet love . Twitter enthusiastically embraced the first night of the Democratic National Convention , with # DNC2012 tweets surpassing 2.1 million before first lady Michelle Obama even stepped onstage . The total number of # GOP2012 tweets topped 4 million over the course of that convention , according to figures provided by Twitter . The first lady 's speech drove more tweets per minute than any Republican National Convention speaker , including presidential candidate Mitt Romney -- 28,003 to 14,289 . Nearly every person who had a visible role Tuesday night trended on Twitter at some point , from San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro , Massachusetts Gov . Deval Patrick and former Ohio Gov . Ted Strickland to Michelle Obama 's brother , Craig Robinson , and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth , who has been locked in an ugly race for a U.S. House seat in Illinois . Twitter user @ tbogg put it like this , `` Tammy Duckworth lost her legs while piloting a Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq . Paul Ryan once drove the Weinermobile . # DNC '' 2 . # sexyface . Kal Penn , better known for his `` Harold & Kumar '' movies than his role at the White House , gave the only response of the night to Clint Eastwood 's # emptychair when he thanked the `` invisible man in the chair '' for giving the order to take out Osama bin Laden and `` who 's cool with all of us getting gay-married . '' He also encouraged viewers to get out and vote , even if they had to do so `` without their pants on . '' Finally , he wondered aloud what his trending hashtag would be at the conclusion of his speech and humbly suggested , # sexyface . Twitter happily obliged . Until the Bieblers caught wind of it . 3 . Cute kids . The adorable 2-year-old Zoe Lihn and her family brought the convention to tears when they shared their personal story about Zoe 's congenital heart defect and insurance coverage struggles . Under the Affordable Care Act , mom Stacey Lihn says they no longer have to worry about coverage for Zoe 's third surgery . `` If Mitt Romney becomes president she will hit her lifetime cap and may not receive her heart transplant , '' Stacey Lihn told the crowd as her two girls and their father stood close by . As mom was speaking , a child started crying . Zoe 's big sis Emerson though seemed to love the stage and the applause . @ allisonrose711 tweeted , `` Okay , so yeah . Stacy Lihn and her RIDICULOUSLY ADORABLE sick child is a pretty damn good defense of the ACA . Also , heartbreaking . '' Tracy Olson posted on Facebook , `` Stacey Lihn , mother of daughter Zoe on how # ObamaCare has given their family and their daughter a fighting chance Speaks @ DNC2012 : . `` 'Governor Romney says people like me were the most excited about President Obama the day we voted for him . But that 's not true . Not even close. `` 'For me , there was the day the Affordable Care Act passed and I no longer had to worry about Zoe getting the care she needed . ' `` In another version of adorable , while Castro was speaking , Buzzfeed caught his daughter backstage perfecting her hair flip . She 's really good . And the Obama campaign released this photo of the president and his daughters watching the first lady 's speech . 4 . And animals . It 's real . Cat lovers for Obama . Lauren Mackevich snapped a photo of a cat lovers button for sale in Charlotte and wishes she was the woman pictured . And while we 're on the subject of pets , animal lovers are showing more support for Obama than Romney . The Facebook pages Pet Lovers for Obama has 40,000 fans , while Pet Lovers for Romney has eight fans . Perhaps they have a bone to pick ? The page Dogs Against Romney has more than 85,000 fans . 5 . Pointing fingers . Instagram users have already uploaded nearly twice as many photos tagged # DNC2012 as # RNC2012 . Included among the sand sculptures , crazy hats and buttons users , @ Cenita01 uploaded a perfect miniature portrait of POTUS on her fingernail . Cenita Scott said via e-mail she is a `` passionate manicurist '' who flew in from Illinois for the convention . `` I understand the power of your hands and feet , '' Scott wrote . `` So I ensure I impart love and positive influence with each client I work with . '' Correction : A previous version of this article incorrectly reported that Cenita Scott listed first lady Michelle Obama as a client . CNN 's Kat Kinsman contributed to this report .
Twitter embraces first night , with tweets surpassing 2.1 million before first lady appears . Mother shares heartbreaking story about insurance coverage struggles for 2-year-old . Animal lovers showing more support on Facebook for Barack Obama than Mitt Romney .