Trump s State of Union address most tweeted ever

Washington Jan 31 (IANS) US President Donald Trump s State of the Union address to the Congress became the most tweeted address ever with 4.5 million tweets Twitter has announced.

Trump s address on Tuesday night led to a total of 4.5 million tweets with the hashtags #SOTU and #JointSession the social networking service said.

"Join me live for the #SOTU " Trump who is very active on the social media platform had tweeted shortly before his address.

The 4.5 million tweets surpass the previous record of 3 million for Trump s first address to the Congress in February 2017 which wasn t technically a State of the Union address since he had been in office for only a month.

According to Twitter the most retweeted message was a tweet with a link to watch the speech live.

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