Twitter: most discussed issues during the State of the Union address 2013

This statistic gives information on the most discussed issues on Twitter during the State of the Union address on February 12, 2013. Education was the most discussed SOTU topic with approximately 65,278 mentions on Twitter.

Most discussed issues on Twitter during the State of the Union address on February 12, 2013

Characteristic	Number of time each subject was mentioned according to keyword searches
Education	65,278
Minimum wage	52,898
Economy	49,481
Gun control	48,940
Deficit	40,726
Jobs	34,244
Energy	30,505
Women	27,445
Climate change	25,866
Immigration	21,079
Taxes	20,033
Military	16,265
Infrastructure	14,624
Afghanistan	13,270
Cybersecurity	9,705
Health Care	7,297
Voting Rights	5,182
AIDS	3,396
North Korea	3,318
Israel	2,366

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Release date

February 2013

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Worldwide

Survey time period

9PM ET February 12, 2013 to 1AM ET February 13, 2013

Supplementary notes

The data were collected using Crimson Hexagon software and includes all publicly shared tweets. Tweets were included if they included the words "state" and "union" or "Obama" or "SOTU". For each subject, multiple search terms were used to identify appropriate tweets. For example, for the subject of "jobs", a tweets was counted if it included the term "jobs" or "employment" or "unemployment".

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