By Adam Gaub, Smartblogs.com
That didn’t take long.
Just weeks after the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., brought calls from politicians, pundits and members of the public to re-examine the tone we use to engage one another in political debate, it took just one unofficial response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to get the fighting words flowing again.
Nowhere was this seen more clearly than on social channels. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., utilized YouTube to deliver her response to Obama’s speech — separate of the official GOP response from Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan — only to see many commenters take to social networks to fire back. Facebook reported that in the hours leading up to Obama’s Tuesday night address, social chatter was more focused on Bachmann — for better or for worse.
WebTrends looked at conversations about the speech across a variety of social media mediums, finding the economy as the leading topic, with education, military matters, innovation and health care all coming in behind the 10,000-plus hits the top topic drew in the 24 hours after Obama’s speech.
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