Popular Links during Obama Jobs Speech & Republican Debate

Here is a list of popular links shared on Twitter during the recent Republican Presidential debate at the Reagan Library, and during President Obama's speech to Congress. Links are ordered from the most popular (most tweeted), and were gathered using the Twitter Search and Untiny API's. I had code lying around and it took just a few minutes to generate these lists¹.

Links tweeted around the time of the Obama speech: judging from this partial list, Obama supporters weren't as active sharing links as his detractors. Twitter enthusiasm gap?

1. Greenpeace: Send Obama a message right now

2. CNN Article ("Stimulus added jobs -- but not enough")

3. Will President Obama’s “Son of Stimulus” Produce Same Results as Its Predecessor?

4. Guardian: US unemployment by state mapped

5. WaPo: Obama Jobs Speech Open Thread

6. WaPo: Obama jobs plan could cost $300 billion, include tax cuts, new spending

7. CNNMoney (Obama stimulus plan: Will it work?)

Links tweeted around the time of the Reagan Library debate: While there was more tweeting going on during the debate compared to the period during Obama jobs speech, there were a lot less links shared.

1. PolitiFact: Rick Perry says more and more scientists are questioning global warming

2. PolitiFact: Romney says his health care bill affected far smaller percentage of people than Obama's

3. RickPerry.org: Never Endorsed HillaryCare

4. PolitiFact: Michele Bachmann says Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs

5. NBC News: Outlines of 'HillaryCare' were known before Perry wrote letter praising reform effort

6. RickPerry.org: Job Creation Record

7. PolitiFact: Gov. Rick Perry says state Medicaid proposal has "languished" in federal file cabinet for years

8. PolitiFact: Pawlenty says Obamacare is patterned after Romneycare

9. Huffington Post (LIVE UPDATES)

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(1) I did very minimal checking, but these rankings are probably approximately correct.

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