Trending Topics in Cable News for Monday, June 9, 2014 – The Sun Rises

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-06-09

Normally, having a short, easy to use hashtag is a great way for a show to build and track engagement.  But some days, you get “hashtag leak” — tweets unrelated to your show are tagged with your hashtag because of some other meaning for it.  Usually these leaks are minor, more just a bit of noise, and not really problematic.  But Monday was not normal, because of this tweet:

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By using the hashtag #NewDay, this photo got flagged as a tweet about CNN’s cable news show “New Day“. The photo’s 25,000+ retweets just blows up the show’s statistics and dwarfs every other show as well.

Dear cable news, all your social media engagement pales in comparison to a photograph of the sun rise.  Something to think about …

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2546 Fox News: The Kelly File
Most Mentions During Day 21342 CNN: New Day

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 48491 38011 306618221 51 % 49 %
Fox News 35697 17298 144188376 59 % 41 %
MSNBC 26504 9959 90632418 48 % 52 %
Comedy Central 4573 4125 7618644 64 % 36 %
HLN 4091 2537 24931503 50 % 50 %
Al Jazeera 1282 860 4574263 63 % 37 %
HBO 1081 828 1990233 68 % 32 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#newday 20744
#reborn 20154
#inspration 20154
#waving 20154
#cge 20154
#tcot 5184
#lnyhbt 3522
#blackfish 2692
#bergdahl 2528
#teaparty 2331

Tag Cloud across all shows

#1 #2a #41republicans #5things #aapl #ac360 #aleppo #all4freedom #argentina #arturo #benghazi #bergdahl #blackfish #bowebergdahl #bringbackourmarine #bundyranch #ccot #cerebralpalsy #cge #cnn #crossfire #dailyshow #edshow #emptythetanks #eu #eu2014 #foxnews #gitmo #glennbeck #gop #hannity #hardball #hillaryissopoor #hope4jobs #humanrights #iava #immigration #inners #inspiring #inspration #iran #iraq #jelloshotmom #kellyfile #killthebill #lastword #lasvegas #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #marineheldinmexico #maryamrajavi #morningjoe #msnbc #newday #news #nowoncavuto #nra #nyc #obama #onthecase #oreillyfactor #p2 #paris #pjnet #pmoi #realtime #reborn #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #rushlimbaugh #schizophrenia #seaworld #sgp #sisterpatriots #suckatyourjob #takeoffjustlogo #taliban #taliban5 #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #theblaze #thecove #thefive #theresatrak4that #tlot #tracymorgan #tweet4taiji #twisters #uniteblue #uppers #vascandal #villepinte #warcimes #waving #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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