Colbert’s Coverage of Gamergate Dominated Cable News Twitter Topics on Thursday, 10/30/14

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-30

Thanks to The Colbert Report’s coverage of “Gamergate”, the topic dominated Cable News Twitter yesterday.  Following that was Tim Cook’s announcement that he’s gay.

Here’s the top 30 words and hashtags for the day:

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You can also download the raw data for the top 100 words and tags for the day: 2014-10-30-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-30-WordStats.csv

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2210 MSNBC: The Ed Show
Most Mentions During Day 20307 Comedy Central: The Colbert Report (11:30-12am)

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 45039 31190 654581166 57 % 43 %
Fox News 43793 21856 228998564 61 % 39 %
MSNBC 31415 12731 179960587 53 % 47 %
Comedy Central 24049 15998 77089194 67 % 33 %
HBO 3841 2852 26531010 63 % 37 %
HLN 3470 1758 20426208 32 % 68 %
Al Jazeera 1917 1422 7375163 58 % 42 %
ABC 422 281 1487840 65 % 35 %
CBS 215 172 4486680 52 % 48 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#gamergate 5671
#blackfish 3439
#apple 3351
#tcot 3329
#kellyfile 2489
#morningjoe 2092
#ebola 2042
#lnyhbt 2037
#isis 1835
#maddow 1649

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #antares #apple #bearselfies #betterwithfriends #blackfish #boston #breaking #burkinafaso #cancelcolbert #catcalling #ccot #chicagoland #chrischristie #cnn #colbertreport #ctot #dailyshow #ebola #edshow #emptythetanks #ericfrein #ferguson #firecarolcostello #foxnews #freelolita #frein #gamergate #gitmo #gop #gotv #greta #halloween #hannity #hardball #inners #iran #isis #israel #jodiarias #kacihickox #kansas #keepcalmvotedem #kellyfile #lastweektonight #lastword #lnyhbt #lwili #maddow #marchforlolita #marine #midterms2014 #morningjoe #msnbc #msnbcvote #ncsen #newday #news #notyourshield #nra #nyc #obama #obamacare #outfront #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #pleasert #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #seaworld #seeyouonpinterest #senate #sgp #showusyourpeanuts #statistic #swiftie #syria #taylorongma #tbt #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thefive #tlot #tntweeters #tpp #tweet4taiji #uniteblue #uppers #usa #vote #voteblue #wiunion #worldseries

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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