Ebola infects Cable News Twitter conversations on Tuesday, September 30

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-30

With the announcement of the Texas patient who tested positive for Ebola, Cable News Twitter naturally was consumed by discussion of the news:

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This pushed all other topics to the margin, including the ever popular ISIS…

Also interesting to note: Since Ebola is (mostly) non-political, the breaking news lifted CNN to the top network and put The Situation Room into the top 5 of Cable News shows on Twitter.

CSV data for the day: 2014-09-30-WordStats.csv 2014-09-30-TagStats.csv

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 3664 Fox News: The Kelly File
Most Mentions During Day 8178 Fox News: Hannity

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 66927 50838 452274363 52 % 48 %
Fox News 47898 23241 268800118 61 % 39 %
MSNBC 31658 13507 192724482 49 % 51 %
Comedy Central 4565 3571 17422453 57 % 43 %
HBO 3150 2583 9534684 64 % 36 %
Al Jazeera 2392 1720 6356603 60 % 40 %
HLN 2172 1396 7769127 35 % 65 %
CBS 688 567 11190280 48 % 52 %
ABC 152 141 4446090 48 % 52 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#ebola 26945
#breaking 20381
#isis 3931
#tcot 3583
#kellyfile 3360
#blackfish 2950
#lnyhbt 2374
#morningjoe 1681
#maddow 1579
#ferguson 1551

Tag Cloud across all shows

#1 #2a #5things #ac360 #baghdad #benghazi #blackfish #breaking #bringbackourmarine #buriedi #c2gthr #cancer #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #cdc #chicagoland #cnn #dailyshow #ebola #edshow #emmy #emptythetanks #ferguson #findhaleigh #foodscraps #foxnews #g #genderequality #globalcitizenfestival #gop #hannity #hardball #heforshe #hkdemocracy #hongkong #i #inners #iran #iraq #isis #isisattackskobane #itdiedtoozune #jailedmarine #judicialgrinds #kellyfile #lastweektonight #lastword #lnyhbt #maddow #marineheldinmexico #moore #morningjoe #msnbc #nationalcoffeeday #newday #news #newsemmys #nyc #obama #occupycentral #occupyhongkong #oklahoma #opkillingbay #oreillyfactor #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #ptsdhearing #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #ripzune #savereyhanehjabbari #seattle #seaworld #secretservice #syria #taiji #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thecove #thefive #thelead #tiot #tlot #tpp #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #uniteblue #us #usa #vet #whitehouse #wiunion #zunewehardlyknewye

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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