On Twitter, President Obama’s Job Speech Drives the Conversation

Nahua-NH - President Obama’s job speech Thursday night prompted more than 125,350 mentions of his name on Twitter, the highest number of mentions in a day since he announced Osama Bin Laden had been killed, according to an analysis by Trendrr, a social media analytics firm.

In the hours after he gave his speech, 53 percent of the posts were favorable. Another 19 percent expressed negative sentiment and 28 percent were neutral, according to the analysis of real-time data on Twitter about the speech by Trendrr, a firm that measures sentiment in real time on social media platforms. Read more…