There were many great vantage points for the US election. One of the most entertaining involved watching Fox News with Twitter in the background. Now that the dust is settling, here are some of the most interesting and entertaining things that happened or are still happening (updates are at the bottom):-

Before the election got underway, a fair few Americans threatened to move to Australia should Obama be re-elected.

Buzzfeed found many more including:

Fortunately, Felicity Ryan clarified things. The following made the front page of Reddit.

But not everybody in Australia was averse to the idea:

Obama Tweeted the most Retweeted Tweet ever - knocking Justin Bieber off his perch and thereby restoring some faith in humanity.

Much was made of Flag in Hair Lady upstaging Obama during his victory speech.

Donald Trump tried to steal the show. He deleted some of the following but a global audience managed to preserve these gems through howls of laughter.

Some witty tweets included:

The changing faces of the Fox News team were indeed brilliant, though. First there was

Then there was...

And...

But ultimately, disbelief, disappointment and denial reared their collective heads:

Later on Fox News published what may well be one of the most extraordinarily-hypocritical blogs ever; blaming an unbalanced media for unfairly favouring the Obama camp.

With so many counters to this argument to choose from it's probably best to give another airing to John Stewart's now-legendary riposte titled, Chaos on Bullshit Mountain.

There were echoes of Romney's Binders Full of Women remark

Here...

An analogy was made (click here 6.5MB Gif)

Satire spread its wings

Obama was labelled cool

There was a party in his car (click here 1MB Gif)

Before he rode off on a unicorn while shooting rainbows from his hands:

Finally, someone in Australia made a salient point.

UPDATES

We've slipped in a few updates above but here are some other interesting web things:-

Observations on the campaign PICTURES

One eagle-eyed wag spotted that everytime you refreshed Romney's Facebook page, the number of Likes decreases.

If you can live with some blatant sweariness, it's worth watching Samuel L. Jackson reprise his reading of 'Go the f*** to sleep' (kids bedtime book) as he calls on people to vote for Obama. Click here.

In the final hours of the count, an official voting machine caused consternation as it switched Obama votes to Romney. Officials said it "Was nothing to worry about." There's a large discussion of it here. You can watch the brief video and see the voter's description of the event, here.

Can anybody provide any pro-Romney or anti-Obama memes? Or does their absence tell us something about US voting demographics?