Trending Topics in Cable News, January 27, 2014: Ukraine and #digitalmaidan

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-27

Two very unusual things happened on Monday.  First, MSNBC managed to pull into first place ahead of CNN, which almost always sits in first place.  Second, hashtags related to the Ukrainian crisis dominated the conversation, with 3 of the top 4 tags being related to events in that country.  It may be that protests there are starting to move toward the top of the news.  We’ll see how it goes…

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2214 MSNBC: All In w/ Chris Hayes
Most Mentions During Day 14009 CNN: Piers Morgan Live

The Ed Show was just a few mentions short of All In for a virtual tie for first place.  See how all the cable news shows ranked yesterday.

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
MSNBC 33869 12905 149484125 49 % 51 %
CNN 32789 21653 330067594 64 % 36 %
Fox News 26038 14366 126368826 63 % 37 %
E 9069 7154 110000072 23 % 77 %
Comedy Central 5571 4130 14329165 61 % 39 %
HLN 4893 2732 21767628 32 % 68 %
Al Jazeera 3781 2667 15540578 61 % 39 %
HBO 2077 1813 24670830 62 % 38 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#ukraine 5507
#digitalmaidan 5122
#grammys 5109
#euromaidan 4697
#tcot 4294
#lnyhbt 2526
#sotu 2476
#maddow 2216
#inners 2165
#edshow 1453

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #actuall #agenda21 #alec #americaagain #amiflyingjack #amnesty #benghazi #blackfish #bridgegate #c2gthr #ccot #cnn #commoncore #constitution #crossfire #ctl #dailyshow #dearpotus #digitalmaidan #edshow #euromaidan #florida #foxnews #foxnewschat #gop #gottagrow #grammy #grammys #greta #hannity #hardball #helpcovedolphins #hottieoftheweek #hr36 #humanrights #impeachobama #inners #iran #kellyfile #koch #lastword #libcrib #lnyhbt #lob #lorde #maddow #misunderstoodlyrics #morningjoe #msnbc #nerdland #newday #news #notdying #nra #nsa #obama #obamacare #ocra #ofa #p2 #photobombkilling #pjnet #politicsnation #radel #randpaul #realtime #rednationrising #renewui #riot #savessccgle2013 #shuttaijidown #sochi #sotu #sotuis #superbowl #surfboard #syria #taiji #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thecove #thefive #tlot #tpp #trendi #tweet4taiji #tweetfortaiji #ukraine #uniteblue #uppers #waronwomen #wekid #willheneverlearn #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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