The Social Web's Say on the State of the Union [STATS]

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Data gathered from Twitter (courtesy of Tweetbeat) and Facebook (courtesy of U.S. Politics on Facebook) paint an interesting picture. Americans are a politically chatty bunch, if nothing else, and their web-based public messages prove it.

In fact, tweets about the State of the Union address far outnumbered tweets about other events of the day, including tweets about the upcoming Super Bowl. Tweetbeat counted around 400,000 tweets about the State of the Union address, and 100,000 appeared in the first hour of the event itself.

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That huge volume of tweets got broken down by keyword for a more colorful image of what exactly Americans and others were talking about during the president's address:

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Spending, healthcare and jobs were also high in the rankings of keywords contained in Facebook status updates during the address, with government spending far outstripping other topics:

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On Twitter, the 10 most talked-about people were:

Barack Obama

John Boehner

Joe Biden

Michele Bachmann

Gabrielle Giffords

Michelle Obama

Samuel Alito

Robert F. Kennedy

Antonin Scalia

Gary Allen

However, on Facebook, Bachmann's name appeared in far more updates than did President Obama's:

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