What was hot on Cable News, January 7, 2014

Starting today, I’m breaking my Cable News Twitter Ratings into two posts.  The first, this one, is a summary of what was the hot topics of discussion on Twitter.  The second will be the detailed rankings for each cable news show. 

Cable News Ratings for 2014-01-07

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 1947 MSNBC: All In w/ Chris Hayes
Most Mentions During Day 10220 CNN: Piers Morgan Live

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 37782 28484 373883725 72 % 28 %
MSNBC 25941 11682 127685219 56 % 44 %
Fox News 24443 14290 104470744 64 % 36 %
E 7985 6177 60015564 24 % 76 %
Comedy Central 7586 6488 20473087 63 % 37 %
HLN 4313 2609 21460956 49 % 51 %
Al Jazeera 2932 2029 15440879 58 % 42 %
HBO 953 635 5394938 75 % 25 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#tcot 2415
#inners 2099
#lnyhbt 1987
#polarvortex 1779
#united 1775
#edshow 1646
#maddow 1517
#newday 1012
#unitedinmisery 958
#p2 950

Tag Cloud across all shows

#5things #ac360 #ac360later #aca #askpiers #bahrain #bcs #bcschampionship #benghazi #ccot #ces #ces2014 #chicago #cnn #colorado #crossfire #ctl #dailyshow #dennisrodman #edshow #egypt #foxnews #freethe7 #gates #gayrights #getglue #globalwarming #goldenglobes #gone #gop #greta #hadagoodrun #hannity #hardball #hardlyknewye #heardonfox #hottieoftheweek #inners #iran #iraq #keepyourpromise #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #makedclisten #makeyourowndailyshow #maliki #marijuana #morningjoe #msnbc #nerdland #newday #news #nfl #northkorea #not #nra #obama #obamacare #occupyhamburg #ocra #opslam #orpuw #outinthecold #p2 #pjnet #polarbearsathalfmast #polarvortex #politicsnation #popeblueivy #pot #potshortage #rednationrising #renewui #republicans #rodman #satanists #seminoles #smsaudio #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thecycle #thefive #thelead #thingsthatoffendliberals #tlot #tpp #ui #unemployment #uniteblue #united #unitedinmisery #uppers #weather #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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