White Rhinos dominate Cable News Twitter on Monday, October 20, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-20

The death of a white rhino and their extremely endangered status pushed Ebola to second place on Monday.

Raw data: 2014-10-20-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-20-WordStats.csv

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 1283 MSNBC: All In w/ Chris Hayes
Most Mentions During Day 6381 CNN: CNN International

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 54442 41751 414198002 52 % 48 %
Fox News 32801 16526 238821880 62 % 38 %
MSNBC 26790 11282 119011351 52 % 48 %
HBO 6544 5115 20997874 61 % 39 %
Al Jazeera 1835 1453 4733684 58 % 42 %
Comedy Central 1827 1581 14137420 62 % 38 %
HLN 1711 1150 5232776 32 % 68 %
CBS 438 331 7943769 39 % 61 %
ABC 204 186 12929923 50 % 50 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#ebola 13321
#tcot 3675
#lnyhbt 2554
#blackfish 1816
#kellyfile 1691
#morningjoe 1673
#oscardelarenta 1546
#maddow 1354
#ferguson 1351
#uniteblue 1326

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #ac360 #benghazi #betterwithfriends #blackfish #breaking #bringbackourgirls #bringbackourmarine #c2gthr #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #cdc #cnn #cnnroots #dailyshow #darrenwilson #defendinternational #democrats #ebola #edshow #emptythetanks #ferguson #fns #forward #foxnews #gamergate #gop #gotv #hannity #hardball #inners #iran #irantalks #iraq #iraqi #isis #johnoliver #kellyfile #kysen #lastweektonight #lastword #liberia #lnyhbt #maddow #marineheldinmexico #mikebrown #morningjoe #mostrecent #msnbc #mtp #nerdland #newday #news #notyourshield #nra #nyc #obama #oscardelarenta #otr #outnumbered #p2 #partsunknown #pjnet #pleasert #pumpkinfest #realanimalsfakepaws #realtime #reasontoexitanobamaspeech #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #savedallas #saveshingal #saveyazidis #scotus #seaworld #slavery #sos_sinjar #stopthegop #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thecycle #thefive #thelead #thomasericduncan #tlot #tntweeters #tpot #tpp #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #uniteblue #uppers #usa #voteblue #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

africa age announced back breaking career colleagues court day de death designer died earth ebola every family fashion fearbola first found free friends generous go going good gop great hear help hope hysteria industry isis just kind know la last left life like look love make man may much need never new news nickname nigeria northern now obama officially old one oscar people please police president real really remarkable renta report rhinos right sad say says see show still stop story supreme take tell thanks think threat time today tonight us vote want watch way white will women world year

 

Melissa Harris-Perry wins Sunday, October 19, on Cable News Twitter

If it’s Sunday, it’s Melissa Harris-Perry … and Meet The Press.  The two shows won best hour and best day, respectively, on Cable News.

Meet The press needs an asterisk, of course, in that it is shown not only on Cable but on traditional broadcast stations as well, and it is impossible to separate tweets that were generated from the respective showings, but it doesn’t take a large leap of faith to believe that the Melissa Harris-Perry show also won best day purely on Cable News, given her 4617 mentions throughout the day (compared to MTP’s 5594).

The runners-up to MHP for best hour were an interesting group: Parts Unknown missed 1st place by 5 tweets while Last Week Tonight, Melissa Harris-Perry (the 10 am hour), and both hours of Up with Steve Kornacki followed after that:

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Raw data for the day:

2014-10-19-ShowStats.csv

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Ebola, yes, but policing in America too: Trending Topics in Cable News for Saturday, October 18, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-18

Some days, the topics drive the conversation by themselves — like the constant Twitter talk about Ebola.  But some days, the shows drive the topics that drive the conversation. Sunday was a bit of a day like this, where Ebola still dominated the conversation, but as you venture down the ranks you can see conversation about police and policing in America being driven by the MSNBC Saturday morning shows:

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You can download the raw data here: 2014-10-18-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-18-WordStats.csv

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