Claim: On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election Twitter made available a minimum of 40 million tweets of which the election was the topic.
Evidence: On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election , Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news , with 40 million election-related tweets sent by 10 p.m. -LRB- Eastern Time -RRB- that day.