President Barack Obama made history Wednesday by saying ”Same-sex couples should be able to get married.” Obama officially declared his support for same sex marriage in an interview with ABC News.
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Obama mentions increased 150% Wednesday.
Obama mentions are currently 67% positive (green), their highest point of the month.
Trayvon Martin was shot to death last month by a neighborhood-watch captain in Florida. His death has raised widespread questions about Florida’s laws and raised concerns that his shooting was possibly racially motivated. The shooting has also led to calls for the arrest of the George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch captain in Sanford, Fla., who shot Martin.
President Obama on Friday called for a full investigation into the shooting of the unarmed African-American teenager, saying the U.S. needs to do some “soul searching” to determine what led to his death.
Three objects emerged as symbols of the tragedy: Skittles, iced tea, and a hoodie. Trayvon covered his head with his hoodie to conceal himself from his pursuer, and — unarmed — was only carrying a single bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea.
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Trayvon has been mentioned more than 12 million times online this week.
The outrage is evident: every topic of conversation around the 17-year old’s murder is negative.
Will Trayvon’s tragic death lead to improved civil rights in America? President Obama said, ”My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
President Obama delivered his third State of the Union address Tuesday night. ”The state of our union is getting stronger,” Obama said, thanks to the economy showing signs of improvement, declining unemployment, rising consumer confidence and reduced levels of household debt.
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The State of the Union (SOTU) was mentioned in nearly 2% of all Internet conversations Tuesday night.
Approximately 85% of Tuesday night’s SOTU conversations came via Twitter; 11% via blogs. ‘Economy’ appears in 20% of conversations and ‘jobs’ appears in 19%.
Boxing was back last weekend as Manny Pacquiao won a thrilling 12 round decision over Juan Manuel Marquez at MGM Grand arena in Las Vegas.
We used Social Radar to analyze conversations around Pacquiao online.
Following the fight Saturday night, Pacquiao was being mentioned more online than football, Obama and even Bieber.
Will a Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight help put boxing back in the national spotlight?
Wall Street had its worst day since the 2008 financial crisis, as fearful investors reacted to the United States losing its coveted AAA credit rating. All three major U.S. stock indexes sank between 5% and 7%, pushing the Dow below 11,000 for the first time since last November.
We reported on Friday that Jersey Shore was sadly generating more buzz on line than Obama and debt ceiling agreement. Though Jersey Shore buzz subsided over the weekend, the American public’s focus still does not seem to be on the economic crisis.
Stock market buzz
Neither the Dow nor stock market showed a significant spike in mentions despite today’s plunge resulting from the S&P’s downgrade of the United States’ credit rating by one notch to “AA+” for the first time in history.
Typically anytime a watershed event happens, my Twitter stream is full of people chiming in with opinions. Amy Winehouse, Grammy Awards, Super Bowl…you can’t really miss a major event and expect to login to Twitter without a spoiler alert. So today when President Obama asked all Americans to “call, email and tweet their GOP lawmakers if you want to see #compromise,” I expected an overload of tweets on the subject. Surprisingly, I saw very few. Then the @BarackObama account proceeded to post the Twitter handles of the GOP lawmakers in each state, so that Twitter users may voice their opinions to the people in charge. Still not much activity in my stream.
In other news, Apple now has more cash than the U.S. Government.
We used Social Radar to analyze which was generating more chatter online.
Wow. iPhone and Apple are generating significantly more chatter than Obama and the compromise he asked Americans to tweet about.
Despite the President’s plea and his staff’s diligent work to provide contact info for all 50 states, the word “tweet” only appeared in around 3% of all Obama mentions today.
Will the American public step up and make their voices heard on this important topic?
Not many words appear more often in the Social Radar database than ‘Obama.’ ‘Facebook,’ ‘Google’ and ‘Twitter’ regularly challenge ‘Obama’ for the most mentioned word online. But as of today, the word ‘debt’ has officially surpassed ‘Obama’ mentions.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told the Senate today that they will remain in session “continuously” every day until Congress passes legislation that prevents a default in raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.
If something is not passed before the August 2 deadline for action, the federal government would, in effect, go dark. Reid warned, “Literally every function of government could cease. Social security checks, payments to our veterans.”
President Barack Obama on Wednesday sternly called on Congress to “do their jobs” and accept tax increases as part of a deal to cut the nation’s deficits. The President made a case for ending certain tax breaks for “millionaires and billionaires” in a deal to keep the U.S. government from defaulting on its debt.
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The word ‘republican’ within tax conversations is trending negative today; 75% of the Republican mentions within tax conversations are negative.
The word ‘democrat’ within tax conversations is trending positive today; 57% of the Democrat mentions within tax conversations are negative.
With Obama’s address yesterday calling on Republicans to “get it done,” the sentiment trend chart is spiking heavily negative for Republicans and moving more positive for Democrats.
Overall conversations around President Obama are currently at their highest and also most negative point (57%) of the month.
Was the president too harsh? Mark Halperin, top editor for Time magazine and regular on MSNBC Thursday morning’s “Morning Joe” broadcast was suspended indefinitely for calling the President a “d*ck” live on air.
Will President Obama’s stern leadership lead to results? The President put Congress on the spot in his remarks, suggesting that leaders work through the July 4 recess to get a deal. A group of Senate Republicans took up the offer Wednesday, pledging to block any recess.
Prince William is set to marry Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011. Buzz seems to be at a ridiculous level in the United States for an event taking place in another country that will have little impact on our lives. Women are taking Friday off work. The official Twitter feed is creating hashtags.
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As of today, mentions of the Royal wedding officially surpassed Obama mentions online.
Chatter around the Royal wedding is up more than 200% in the past month.
Granted the United States has a higher population, but really? Wait, I guess this post just contributed to the numbers in the U.S. Oops! I guess we’re all suckers for hype. Congrats Kate and Prince William!
President Obama laid out his plans to cut the deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years on Wednesday, saying that it was necessary to use a scalpel instead of a machete to cut costs and that both parties need to come together to do so by the end of June. Joe Biden fell asleep.
Conversations around the budget are up 327% but are currently at their most negative point of the month, 73%. Nearly every topic of conversation surrounding the budget is currently red (negative).
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