Ebola resists Panetta’s Charms to Stay Top Topic in Cable News Twitter, 10/7/14

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-07

Even though Leon Panetta was out making the rounds Tuesday, trying to sell his book with some sensationalist second-guessing of the President, he wasn’t able to dislodge Ebola from the top of the trending topics list or change the levels of conversation around ISIS or Benghazi:

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Perhaps it’s been because conservative reaction to Panetta has not been welcoming (see the comments in this article for an example).  Panetta landed at #34 in the list, right behind “Flu”.

Top 100 words and tags for the day: 2014-10-07-TagStats.csv2014-10-07-WordStats.csv

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2398 Fox News: The Kelly File
Most Mentions During Day 6089 Comedy Central: The Colbert Report (11:30-12am)

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
Fox News 40252 18553 283808321 62 % 38 %
CNN 39529 26934 680908153 53 % 47 %
MSNBC 25804 10788 138990698 53 % 47 %
Comedy Central 8532 7538 18651326 61 % 39 %
HBO 6557 4629 29519981 69 % 31 %
HLN 1947 1167 5232019 31 % 69 %
Al Jazeera 1602 1181 5151403 65 % 35 %
CBS 627 501 5389795 53 % 47 %
ABC 601 400 17892713 55 % 45 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#isis 3371
#tcot 3096
#ebola 2960
#blackfish 2427
#kellyfile 2124
#maddow 1931
#lnyhbt 1746
#inners 1675
#morningjoe 1563
#panetta 1410

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #airforce #benghazi #blackfish #bloodmoon #breaking #captivitykills #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #chicagoland #cnn #crossfire #cruz #dailyshow #ebola #edshow #emptythetanks #ferguson #findingyourroots #flipadistrict #flipkline #foxnews #gop #gottadoit #hannity #hardball #health #healthcare #healthtalk #hillary #hillaryclinton #inners #iraq #isis #isisattackskobane #islam #kellyfile #kobane #kobani #kurdistan #kurds #lastweektonight #lastword #leonpanetta #lgbt #lnyhbt #maddow #mh370 #morningjoe #msnbc #mtp #ncsen #newday #news #nra #nyc #obama #obamacare #or #oreill #oreillyfactor #otr #outnumbered #p2 #panetta #pjnet #putin #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #savethearctic #schizophrenia #seaworld #sgp #syria #taiji #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thefive #thelead #thewholeworldwatches #tlot #tntweeters #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #twitterkurds #uniteblue #uniteblue2014 #usa #vasendebate #voteblue2014 #votingmatters #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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