Hey, so Obama’s sixth State of the Union address was on tonight. Did you watch it? Yeah, don’t lie. It’s fine, you didn’t miss much. At the beginning of the speech he said he wasn’t going to just go down a list of proposals for the coming year and then… proceeded to do just that. It’s hard to take any of it seriously because, you know, Republican congress and all that.
If you want to know how the speech really did, though, there’s only one place you have to look: Twitter.
In all 2.6 million Tweets were sent out starting with President Obama’s address, and ending with the Republican response from newly elected Iowa Senator Joni Ernst (she of the infamous castrating hogs commercial), Twitter has revealed in a blog post..
Now 2.6 million isn’t bad… but to put in context 306,000 tweets were sent out per minute that time Miley Cryus rubbed her butt on Robin Thicke. That entire Video Music Awards had 11 million tweets. So… yeah, 2,6 million really isn’t great.
Twitter also revealed the most tweeted about moments during the speech. They were:
When the President ad-libbed the line, “I have no more campaigns to run. I know because I’ve won both of them.” The line has been described as “epic burn” against the GOP.
The second highest was when the speech was finally over, followed by the President outlining college proposals.
The most-Tweeted about topics during the live telecast were: community college, equal pay, climagte change, tax reform and healthcare.
Twitter wouldn’t be Twitter without some sniping from politicians on the other side of the aisle. Here are some of the ones you might be hearing about tomorrow, from both before and after the speech:
The President’s address was a lost opportunity and shows a man out of touch on both domestic and foreign policy. #SOTU
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) January 21, 2015
I’ll save you 45 mins. Obama will decry Republicans, beat up on private business and argue for more “free stuff”. Your welcome. #SOTU2015”
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) January 21, 2015
#Obama perverts “prosecutorial discretion” by inviting a deportable to sit in place of honor at #SOTU w/1st Lady. I should sit with Alito.
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) January 20, 2015
This>>> pic.twitter.com/nhokuPvZAT
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) January 21, 2015
Veto threats & unserious proposals may make good political theater, but they won’t distract the new American Congress http://t.co/cumheM6Cud
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) January 21, 2015
It also wouldn’t be Twitter without at least one meme. This year it didn’t come from anything Obama said, but rather from a line in Ersnt’s speech in which she talked about her rural upbringing.
“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” she said, and Twitter went crazy with #BreadBagShoes.
Check out my new Nikes! #breadbagshoes pic.twitter.com/MTIzvrunYQ
— Steve Dowdy (@Steverocks35) January 21, 2015
Why just #BreadbagShoes, what about the bread? pic.twitter.com/pynLgHLEzt
— JigmeUgen (@JigmeUgen) January 21, 2015
Meanwhile in Iowa #BreadbagShoes #JoniErnst #SOTU #POTUS pic.twitter.com/HTRfYkCShY
— JigmeUgen (@JigmeUgen) January 21, 2015
(Image source: nbcnews.com)
