Pinoys air views online during Aquino's SONA
MANILA, Philippines - On the day President Aquino spoke to the Filipino people, Pinoy netizens made their voices heard online.
Filipinos were very active on the world wide Web, and in particular on social networking websites, airing their views about the State of the Nation Address on Monday.
Pinoys were most active on Twitter, where terms associated with the SONA became trending topics between 230 pm and 8 pm.
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At start of SONA, 4:02 pm
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4:16 pm
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End of SONA, 4:39 pm
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5:28 pm
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5:47 pm
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6:01 pm
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The hashtag #SONA2010 was among the most-used terms in the Twitterverse, peaking at around 4 pm Philippine time.
(Graphs courtesy of Trendistic.com. First graph showed the term #SONA2010 compared with the search term "justin bieber", one of the most popular terms on Twitter. Second graph shows the spike of tweets with the top SONA-related terms and @ABSCBNNews and @ANCALERTS.)
Among the most popular tweets in the social networking site was a tweet from @ANCALERTS:
"Appointees ni PGMA. Kung mayroon pa silang kahit kaunting hiya na natitira - sana kusa na lang silang magbitiw sa puwesto." #sona2010
ABS-CBN News Channel
ANCALERTS
The tweet was "re-tweeted" the most between 4pm and 9pm, and the lone SONA-related tweet in Twitter's @toptweets account.
(Screenshot as of 5:50 pm, July 26, 2010)
The tweets of ABS-CBN News, ANC, and ABS-CBN journalists were also popular among Pinoy netizens.
On TrendsMap.com, a website tracking and mapping Twitter trends worldwide, the speech was also clearly a hot topic:
And it wasn't just Filipinos in the Philippines who were tweeting: overseas Pinoys were also watching Aquino's SONA, as seen in this TrendsMap.com screenshot after the SONA.
(Screenshot as of 5:28 pm, July 26, 2010)
Reactions
Twitter reactions to the speech ran a gamut of emotions, from highly optimisted to highly pessimistic.
Here is a sampling of tweets to @ABSCBNNews:
@abscbnnews hindi man nabanggit ni PNoy ang lahat ng problema, malinaw naman ang hangarin niya, ayusin muna ang budget then sunod na ang iba
Master Pogi
mstrpgi
@ABSCBNNews PNoy's SONA is striking;gave his ideas of an ideal Philippines.That can be turned against him though if not seen ASAP.#sona2010
Frances Aguda
cesnarf
@ABSCBNNews focused to much on the wrong deeds of past admin.but overall sona is gud.hoping what he said will be put into doings.
Ma. Teresa Dadivas
Itsmetere
@ABSCBNNews nothing special for his sona gonna give him ample time to prove himself
Darryl
TheKnightVoice
@ABSCBNNews It was all crap. No concrete plans. He just said what people wanted to hear and pointed fingers. But no concrete solutions
Jojo Ayson
ayson
@ABSCBNNews #SONA2010 Balanse ang pagbalik at pagpuna sa madilim na nakaraan at sa pag-asang inilalaan sa atin ng kasalukuyang pamahalaan.
Michael Magaway
iamthespaceman
Reactions also poured in on Facebook, like this comments thread on the official abs-cbnNEWS.com page:
People also posted their reactions to the speech at the Bayan Mo, Ipatrol Mo (BMPM) website at http://bmpm.abs-cbnnews.com. -- Kris Danielle Suarez, abs-cbnNEWS.com
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