Here’s What State of the Union Tweeters Cared About Most

For the second year in a row, White House officials took social media questions from the public in a roundtable discussion following the president’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.

There were over 18,000 tweets using the #SOTUchat hash tag before and during the discussion, according to a Nextgov search using the social media analytics tool Topsy.

Here’s a roundup of the subjects #SOTUchat tweeters were interested in.

• Education -- 549 tweets
• GOP -- 466 tweets
• Jobs -- 382 tweets
• Climate change -- 234 tweets
• Health -- 197 tweets
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) -- 187 tweets
• Economy -- 178 tweets
• Immigration -- 159 tweets
• Tax -- 151 tweets
• Boehner -- 121 tweets
• Unemployment -- 120 tweets
• Defense -- 111 tweets
• Remsburg (Cory Remsburg, the injured veteran who sat with the First Lady during the speech) -- 85 tweets
• Marriage -- 82 tweets
• Lie -- 69 tweets
• Innovation -- 51 tweets
• Obamacare -- 42 tweets
• Afghanistan -- 34 tweets
• MyRA (Obama’s proposal for a new savings bond to help Americans save for retirement) -- 34 tweets
• Keystone (the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline) -- 32 tweets
• Food stamps -- 31 tweets
• Syria -- 23 tweets
• Deportation -- 19 tweets
• Liberal -- 18 tweets
• Guns -- 15 tweets
• Hillary -- 15 tweets
• Abortion -- 12 tweets
• Supreme Court -- 10 tweets
• Christie -- 10 tweets
• Veteran -- 7 tweets
• Medicare -- 6 tweets
• Punch Pizza (the Minneapolis pizza parlor Obama called out for paying its employees above minimum wage) -- 3 tweets
• Conservative -- 3 tweets
• Al Qaeda -- 1 tweet