The Kelly File pops back up with best hour on Wednesday, December 18, after a break while White Santa quieted down.  Piers Morgan’s best day on Tuesday spilled over into Wednesday, giving him the best day on Wednesday as well.

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There’s a lot of people tweeting about Cable News Shows — or, perhaps more precisely, tweeting at cable news shows about current events.  But who are these people?

First, from the perspective of gender, let’s see who tweets to various cable news networks:

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We can see that CNN and Fox News draw the most male audiences, while E! and HLN are the most female audiences on Twitter. (Comedy Central is represented by The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, both of which, even if comedic, are daily news shows).

How old are the people talking about the various networks?

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E! News has the youngest crowd (all tweeting about One Direction, I think), while Fox and MSNBC have virtually identical, older crowds — flip sides of the same coin, I guess.

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Piers Morgan sweeps the day with best hour and best day on Twitter — and this even after I started filtering out his UK Football tweets.

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Wow, the Melissa Harris-Perry show had a great day on Sunday, with over 7000 mentions during the day, driven by Nikki Giovanni’s live poetry recital.

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