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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: State of the Union's Best Tweets [Watch (HLS stream): State of the Union's Best Tweets](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1no6UlUz.m3u8) (3:02)  _Published 2014-01-29. TIME talks about the best tweets during Obama's State of the Union speech_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:09 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Five Years of Obama's State of the Union](/video/kvaKb5nc/) ### Five Years of Obama's State of the Union [The State of the Union's Hits and Misses](/video/93GYEyVY/) ### The State of the Union's Hits and Misses [State of the Union's Best Photos](/video/hW4qfdSc/) ### State of the Union's Best Photos --- ## Transcript >> I wanna bring back in Callie Schweitzer to talk about the Twitter verse reaction. There was quite a bit. First of all, tell us about what the peak moment was, the highest velocity of tweeting during the speech. >> The peak moment according to Twitter was the Mad Men comment. It was the most tweeted about moment so far. So, we'll see if that data changes as soon as they release the final numbers, but it was the peak of the entire speech. >> The [ unk ], pop culture references. >> Pop culture always. >> That's the trick to tweeting. Now, there is a tweet about the president's length, what do we know about that? >> Yes, it was longer than George H. W. Bush's longest State of the Union, which was 51 minutes and 3 seconds, I believe. This one was 1 hour and 10 minutes. >> Yeah. Still can hold the candle with Bill Clinton, right? He should pass somebody. Now you found three tweets from some prominent Conservatives who had some nice things to say. They probably didn't like the speech overall, but talk us through these three Conservatives and what they had to say. >> Yeah. National Review senior editor, Ramesh Ponnuru said, " The defining challenge of inequality replaced by defining project of opportunity. Good move on Obama's part ." Case of changing the narrative there. Rich Lowry of the National Review said, " Streamline permitting process actually sounds like a good idea ." And Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute said, " President Obama's comments on immigration were pleasantly nonpartisan. That's a change from his past, a welcome one that will help ." >> Okay. Now, you also found a White House tweet that's gonna has a familiar picture attached to it. Talk us through that. >> Yeah, it looked like the most popular tweet from the White House was the " Of how the son of a single can be president of the greatest nation on Earth" with the picture of Barack as a little boy. >> Okay. Now, we're gonna let you close here with a little bit of humor. I have looked at these. I cannot say I find all power four of them to be laugh riots, but we'll see what happens as you run through and tell us about this Lindsey Graham tweet. >> Well, in pop culture again, the matriarch and the patriarch of Duck Dynasty theme were there, Willie and Korie Robertson as Senator Graham's guests. Next we have Frank from House of Cards. His rebuttal, " Democracy is so overrated ." >> Now, is that the real House of Cards accountant? It looks to get certified, so I guess it is. >> It is. It is indeed. >> Okay. >> And on a joke. Good brands timing. >> Yeah. >> He's a real fake guy. >> Yes, exactly. >> He's a real big guy. >> Exactly. >> We have Speaker Boehner's thumbs up moment, which we have a vine of here. And finally, my favorite getting some more Grammy's pop culture moments in, Daft Punk, John Boehner, and Joe Biden. Daft Punk and Barack Obama, Pharrell Williams and his hat, famous from the Grammy's performance. >> And what do we know about Nick Pants? That Twitter? >> I do not know anything about Nick Pants ,-- >> Just super creative. >> but someone responded to me on Twitter and said this was the best tweet of the night. >> Okay. >> Here he is. >> Callie, excellent social medial roundup. Thank you. >> Thank you. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"State of the Union's Best Tweets","description":"TIME talks about the best tweets during Obama's State of the Union speech","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/1no6UlUz/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-01-29T06:47:19.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1no6UlUz.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/1no6UlUz/","duration":"PT3M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/1no6UlUz/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```