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#SOTU

Yesterday Obama gave his last State of the Union (SOTU) address and #SOTU was trending on Twitter. I downloaded 200K tweets and then analyzed only the original tweets while excluding retweets. This is now my standard format. I also reduced the number of words to show in the wordcloud. I now show only the top 50 instead of top 100 previously.

The obvious words that showed up frequently are POTUS and Obama. Similarly, "president" shows up often. But there were many positive words appearing frequently - like, believe, easier, better, right, truth, strong, love, clear, good. The sentiment overall was neutral but positive tweets far outweighed negative ones.



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