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  • Marco Rubio’s Water Bottle Moment Tapped for Late but Funny Poland Spring Facebook Post

    If you watched Senator Marco Rubio’s GOP rebuttal to the President’s State of the Union address last night, you probably saw him awkwardly reach for a small water bottle in the middle of the speech. The man needed some water, it’s really not that big of a deal. The only thing was that the water bottle was simply placed way too far away from where Rubio was standing, leading to a funny moment.

    Of course, Twitter and Facebook jumped on it and “Water Bottle Gate” was born.

    Unless you were really paying attention, you probably wouldn’t have noticed that the brand of the water Rubio grabbed was Poland Spring. Well, Poland Spring noticed.

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    Reflecting on our cameo. What a night!

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    Nice one, Poland Spring. But you posted that this afternoon! You gotta get on that faster!

    As a bonus, here’s all of Rubio’s lip-smacking moment throughout his speech. No wonder he needed the Poland Springs:

  • State of the Union: Obama’s Minimum Wage Bit Sees Biggest Twitter Spike

    Tuesday night’s State of the Union address contained 6,419 words and took just about an hour to deliver. 101 different lines in the speech were followed by applause, and President Obama mentioned defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney a total of twice throughout the address.

    Twitter has provided us with some more figures – total tweets and tweets per minute. And according to their calculations, 1.36 million tweets were registered from the start of President Obama’s SOTU to the conclusion of Senator Marco Rubio’s GOP response speech.

    And if you think that Twitter buzzed the most during the President’s impassioned section on gun violence, you would be wrong. The moment of the speech with the highest tweets per minute registered was when he was discussing the minimum wage and “ladders of opportunity.” That saw 24,000 TPM.

    The gun violence part came in second with 23,700 TPM (the “they deserve a vote” part).

    As far Rubio’s speech goes, Twitter says they they saw a spike when he had to reach a little bit out of his comfort zone to grab a bottle to take a sip of water.

    State of the Union tweets

    If you need something to compare the SOTU tweet total to, let’s look back at this month’s Super Bowl. Twitter said that they counted 24.1 total Super Bowl-related tweets – 5.5 million of which were simply about Beyonce.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is Michelle Obama’s Guest at Tuesday’s State of the Union

    Apple CEO Tim Cook is Michelle Obama’s Guest at Tuesday’s State of the Union

    It’s going to be another Apple-heavy FLOTUS box at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.

    First Lady Michelle Obama will be welcoming Apple CEO Tim Cook as one of her guests at the SOTU. According to the White House, Cook will be accompanied by “military families, those championing immigration reform and those whose lives have been touched by gun violence.”

    Also sitting with Mrs. Obama tomorrow night: Bobak Ferdowsi, better known as the “Mohawk Guy” from NASA that gained an internet following after the Mars Curiosity rover landed successfully on the Martian surface.

    This is the second year in a row that Michelle Obama has tapped someone associated with Apple to be her guest at the SOTU. Last year, her featured guest was Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

    It’ll be interesting to see just how far the First Lady and Tim Cook are seated from Ted Nugent.

    [via Mercury News]

  • Ted Nugent Tweets He’ll Attend State of the Union

    Ted Nugent, who is neither dead or in jail, will be one of the guests present at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.

    He’s attending as the guest of Steve Stockman, a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas’ 36th congressional district.

    Ted Nugent, a noted gun enthusiast and cat scratch fever sufferer, has been vocal in his criticisms of President Obama. Last year, at an NRA convention, Nugent said that “if Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

    He was shortly visited by the Secret Service, who later determined that there was nothing to worry about. “I’ve never threatened anybody’s life in my life,” said Nugent. “I don’t waste my breath threatening.”

    “I am excited to have a patriot like Ted Nugent joining me in the House Chamber to hear from President Obama,” said Stockman in a press release. “After the Address I’m sure Ted will have plenty to say.”

    He already has something to say on Twitter:

  • SOTU: 760,000 Tweets During the Address

    SOTU: 760,000 Tweets During the Address

    Twitter reports today that the traffic specifically about the State of the Union address last night – DURING the address, not counting follow-up remarks – was over 760,000.

    The hashtag #education alone saw 35,972 tweets. Other hashtags promoted by Twitter were #jobs, #manufacturing, #energy, and #fairness.

  • SOTU: Twitter Fu From the White House Comes Home

    Before the State of the Union address last night, the White House started a little discussion. And, they did it in the most ingenious way.

    Last month, the 2.6 million followers of @WhiteHouse and the 11.6 million followers of @BarackObama on Twitter were asked “What does $40 mean to you?” with the hashtag #40dollars. The discussion was about the payroll tax cut being considered before Congress that would take an additional $40 a week out of workers’ paychecks.

    The premise was simple enough. People posted responses to that question, hashtagging them with “#40dollars”. If you followed that hashtag on Twitter, you saw responses like:

    The #40dollars hashtag started trending on Twitter, with most people unaware of what it was all about. But, they asked. And word got around.

    Soon a national conversation was started.

    Some simply poked fun.

    The White House had seized control of the narrative in the public by priming the conversation with a Twitter hashtag.

    Then, during the State of the Union address last night, President Obama brought it all home:

  • SOTU: Twitter Jockeys Respond

    President Obama delivered his third State of the Union address last night. Folks watched with smartphones and laptops at the ready, tweeting as they went.