Anderson Cooper’s Interview of Donald Sterling Dominated Cable News Trending Topics for May 12, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-12

Anderson Cooper’s interview with Donald Sterling dominated the conversation on Twitter, with his show getting the most mentions by far, the hashtag #DonaldSterling dominating, and the words “Donald” and “Sterling” being the most used in cable news tweets during the day.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 11464 CNN: Anderson Cooper 360
Most Mentions During Day 27406 CNN: Anderson Cooper 360

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 51069 33371 498949630 59 % 41 %
Fox News 25850 13977 116586467 63 % 37 %
MSNBC 22951 10592 106956215 56 % 44 %
E 10081 7570 116416461 22 % 78 %
Comedy Central 4058 3445 14580576 61 % 39 %
HBO 2883 2298 14208329 69 % 31 %
HLN 2545 1636 8935439 35 % 65 %
Al Jazeera 1816 1280 4552571 61 % 39 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#donaldsterling 12408
#ac360 7700
#tcot 4606
#lnyhbt 3379
#benghazi 2021
#pjnet 1709
#teaparty 1583
#maddow 1536
#inners 1444
#uniteblue 1425

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #aca #bbmas #benghazi #bokoharam #bringbackourgirls #campliberty #ccot #chicagoland #chihuahua #climatechange #clippers #cnn #crossfire #dailyshow #democrats #donaldsterling #edshow #elections2014 #elevatorgate #enews_kuis #fuckyourush #glee #gop #hannity #hardball #hottieoftheweek #inners #iran #iranian #irantalks #iraq #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #livefrome #lnyhbt #luke #maddow #maryam_rajavi #mcm #mh370 #michaelsam #momswhoserve #morningjoe #mothersday #msnbc #nba #nbaplayoffs #net_one #newday #news #nfl #nigeria #obama #obamacare #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #politicsnation #prolife #realtime #rednationrising #reiders #renewui #republicans #russia #sgp #sisterpatriots #someta #sorrydonaldsterling #sosvenezuela #sot #sterling #syria #takeoffjustlogo #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thefive #theoriginals #thevoice #tlot #tntweeters #tpfa #ukraine #uniteblue #uniteright #uppers #venezuela #vstiviano #waar #washingtonmonument #wiunion #wreckingball #xmenpremiere

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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