President Barack Obama's speech Wednesday night about the U.S. plan to combat the Islamic State, a group that gained notoriety after the brutal murder of two journalists, drew 34 million viewers, according to numbers released by Nielsen. <br /> <br />That figure is slightly higher than the 33.3 million people who tuned in for the President's State of the Union back in January, which at the time was the lowest-rated State of the Union since President Clinton's final address in 2000. <br />Fox News led the cable networks, with the 15-minute speech bringing in 4.45 million Fox viewers. MSNBC and CNN received 1.89 million and 1.83 million viewers respectively. In the key 25-54 age demographic, Fox News attracted the same number of viewers as CNN and MSNBC combined (994,000 versus 633,000 and 361,000). In all, 14 networks carried the address. <br /> <br />On the social side, Obama's speech sparked 234,000 Tweets — more than the season finale of Teen Wolf , but fewer than the number sent during latest episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, according to Nielsen figures. Oh, Twitter.
