Tuesday’s State of the Union address was the most tweeted such address in history, White House Digital Strategy Director Macon Phillips reported during a Twitter-enabled chat following the address.
About 1.1 million tweets using the #SOTU hash tag were posted during the address, Phillips said, compared with 645,000 tweets using that hash tag during the president’s 2012 State of the Union address.
The most tweeted moment of the address was the president’s call to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour, he said. The second most tweeted moment was the president’s call to pass gun control legislation.
Joseph Marks
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
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