Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-18
Once again the @WheelsOfTheSyst folks have managed to retweet bomb Fox News and dominate the trending topics. Clearly, this isn’t organic conversation, and I’m of two minds what to do about it.
The first is just filter out any retweets of @WheelsOfTheSyst. That would be a bit of a pain, but manageable. The second is to try to filter out tweets from suspicious accounts in general (for example, a huge number of the retweets are from “egg” accounts). The first solves the problem for the moment, but will let the next version of @WheelsOfTheSyst through. The second will trim off some bona fide users who haven’t changed their avatar yet.
I’ve pinged the @WheelsOfTheSyst folks to get a better sense of what’s happening — maybe it’s a tempest in a tea cup and I should let it slide. We’ll see…
Another interesting question is whether the constant retweets is drowning out the other, organic conversations about Fox News. I don’t really know.
Beyond them, the normal ISIS conversation is taking place. Interesting to see, on the other hand, that Scotland didn’t creep into the leaderboard. Perhaps for Friday.
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2636 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 10246 | CNN: CNN International |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| Fox News | 54055 | 25213 | 230615575 | 64 % | 36 % |
| CNN | 50605 | 37375 | 479877434 | 57 % | 43 % |
| MSNBC | 26360 | 11574 | 158085970 | 52 % | 48 % |
| Comedy Central | 7903 | 6924 | 21458267 | 62 % | 38 % |
| HBO | 3200 | 2582 | 16055013 | 55 % | 45 % |
| HLN | 1842 | 1314 | 5053410 | 36 % | 64 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1453 | 1074 | 3320948 | 61 % | 39 % |
| CBS | 245 | 213 | 692979 | 44 % | 56 % |
| ABC | 147 | 123 | 6285435 | 50 % | 50 % |
Most popular hastags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #terrorism | 17482 |
| #psa | 17443 |
| #1world | 17441 |
| #shun | 15011 |
| #isis | 12551 |
| #educational | 5628 |
| #isil | 5172 |
| #gretawire | 4908 |
| #bitethebullet | 4891 |
| #sitroom | 4842 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #1world #2a #5things #ac360 #apple #benghazi #bitethebullet #blackfish #brendantevlin #burie #c2gthr #carrefour #cashinin #ccot #cnn #cnnafrica #dailyshow #detroit #ebola #edshow #educate #educational #ferguson #fightfor15 #foxnews #france #geolocalization #glacialdoj #gop #gretawire #hanni #hannity #hardball #indyref #inners #iran #irantalksnyc #iraq #isil #isis #jaimecamil #jeans #judicialfiefdoms #judicialgrinds #kcamexico #kellyfile #kssen #lastweektonight #livingto100 #lnyhbt #maddow #marineheldinmexico #morningjoe #msnbc #newday #news #nfl #nyc #nyco #obama #opfunkill #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #psa #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #scotland #scotlanddecides #seaworld #seeyouinnovember2014 #shun #shunning #sitroom #specialreport #stlcards #streetwear #syria #taiji #tbt #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #terrorism #tgdn #thefive #tlot #tpp #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #uk #uniteblue #urbano #usa #vote2014 #weunderstandthatascorporateentitiesourpresenceincertaindiscussionsisnotalwaysrequiredsowewillstrivetolimitouractiviti #wiunion |
Word Cloud across all shows
| 1st 700 against align america arou beheadings bill clear coalition coalitions congress couple day deploy downloading every first go good grand great hands help holding home house independence info isis islamic just killed know last like love make man military missing need new news nfl now obama oil one pay people phones please police polls president price really report right rip run sales say says scotland scottish see show since skeletons stare state strategies suicide take taking terabyte thank think time today tonight two uncovered us usa vacation video vote want war watch week weeks will women worked world years |