Cable News Twitter Ratings for Friday, July 18, 2014 — Anderson Cooper & Bill Maher

Anderson Cooper won the best hour on Friday, no doubt to CNN’s coverage of the plane crash in Ukraine.  Bill Maher won the day overall, based upon his discussion of the situation in Gaza.  What’s interesting is that the plane crash is (at this point) mostly a non-partisan, fact based issue, the Gaza discussion is very politically charged.  And so the middle-ground network, CNN, dominates the plane crash conversation while partisan shows (like Bill Maher’s) dominate the conversation about Gaza.

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Cable News Twitter Ratings for July 17, 2014: CNN and Ukraine

The ratings for Thursday are probably somewhat inaccurate owing to the unscheduled coverage of the MH17 crash. The trending topics report showed that CNN dominated the conversation overall, as one might expect. So take these numbers with a grain of salt: the Kelly file had the best hour while the Colbert Report had the best day overall.

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Trending Topics in Cable News for Wednesday, July 16, 2014 — Gaza and the US Border

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-07-16

CNN had one of its strong days where its mentions, unique mentions, and reach just far exceed what anyone else does.  It shows the latent, and often untapped, power of the network.

In terms of trending hashtags,  #flipadistrict and #donothingdave were on the top of the list, all part of the Twitter buzz surrounding Bill Maher’s Flip-a-district project.  In terms of discussion, the events in Gaza and on the US border both were trending highly.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2465 Fox News: The Kelly File
Most Mentions During Day 8148 Fox News: Hannity

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 45105 32184 356149853 58 % 42 %
Fox News 38724 17211 170025564 61 % 39 %
MSNBC 23764 10495 105528500 53 % 47 %
HBO 17743 1246 18929898 46 % 54 %
Comedy Central 11684 9981 76550198 63 % 37 %
Al Jazeera 2030 1535 9132168 58 % 42 %
HLN 1650 937 6899593 47 % 53 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#flipadistrict 17252
#donothingdave 15573
#tntweeters 14125
#wa8 10503
#gaza 6629
#tcot 5593
#lnyhbt 4174
#kellyfile 2966
#blackfish 2879
#pjnet 2285

Tag Cloud across all shows

#14a #2a #ac360 #america #benghazi #blackfish #bordercrisis #bringbackourmarine #c2gthr #captivitykills #cavuto #ccot #cir #cnn #congress #crossfire #dailyshow #defundhamas #dickcheney #donothingdave #drakesingforjasmin #edshow #emptythetanks #flipadistrict #foxnews #freearturo #gaza #gazaunderattack #gop #gopout #gosnell #hamas #hannity #hardball #hillaryclinton #iamjada #immigration #inners #iran #irantalks #irantalksvienna #irs #israel #kellyfile #lastword #latino #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #marineheldinmexico #midtermelection #morningjoe #msnbc #newday #news #nra #obama #obamacare #ocra #oreillyfactor #outnumbered #p2 #pdmfnb #pjnet #prolife #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #retirereichert #scotus #seaworld #shutdown #shuttaijidown #sisterpatriots #standwith #superpod3 #takeoffjustlogo #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #texas #tgdn #thefive #thelead #thor #tlot #tntweeters #tweet4taiji #ukraine #uniteblue #uniteright #usa #veteran #wa08 #wa8 #waar #wiunion #wwhl

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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