Trending Topics in Cable News for Friday, May 30, 2014 — The VA is Surging

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-30

While Blackfish is still splashing around on Twitter, the scandal at the VA was a dominant topic on cable news Twitter on Friday as well.  Various Iranian hashtags have shown up mostly, I think, not in reaction to what’s on cable news but to try to get more coverage for Iranian events.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 1548 MSNBC: The Ed Show
Most Mentions During Day 4967 Fox News: Hannity

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
Fox News 33388 15864 178987070 60 % 40 %
CNN 29950 19420 274842028 54 % 46 %
MSNBC 26071 11181 126827737 53 % 47 %
HLN 2387 1750 7151650 53 % 47 %
Al Jazeera 2208 1633 5477660 55 % 45 %
HBO 2167 1866 9491484 71 % 29 %
Comedy Central 1045 939 3257565 57 % 43 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#blackfish 4295
#tcot 4062
#lnyhbt 2793
#inners 1758
#iran 1548
#vasurge 1527
#maryamrajavi 1491
#uniteblue 1401
#eu 1395
#pjnet 1356

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #ac360 #all4freedom #amr #argentina #benghazi #blackfish #buy #captivitykills #ccot #cityoftomorrow #cnn #dadswithdaughters #donaldsterling #edshow #edwardsnowden #emptythetanks #endthebacklog #eu #ff #followfriday #foxconcert #gop #hannity #hardball #hold #inners #insideman #iran #jailedmarine #jaycarney #jeraleantalley #justiceforbenghazi4 #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #marine #marineheldinmexico #maryamrajavi #morningjoe #msnbc #mxphappytrip #newday #news #noba #nowoncavuto #nra #obama #opstormfreearturo #options #p2 #paris #partsunknown #pjnet #politicsnation #realtime #redeye #redmeat #rednationrising #rlc2014 #seaworld #shinseki #shuttaijidown #sisterpatriots #snowden #startrek #stock #takeoffjustlogo #tbt #tcot #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #tgif #thaicoup #thecove #thefive #thesixtiescnn #throwbackthursday #tlot #tntweeters #tpp #tweet4taiji #uk #uniteblue #uniteright #uppers #va #vascandal #vasurge #veteran #veterans #villepinte #waar #westpoint #wiunion #yesallwomen #zdf

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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