Congressional Staffers Top Topics in Cable News Twitter for Thursday, December 11, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-12-11

Thursday was a day full of tweet-worthy topics: The torture report, police killings, budget shenanigans.  So what won out? The top topic was congressional staffers walking out to protest police violence, followed by torture and Stephen Colbert:

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The top word for the day, “just”, appears in several unrelated tweets with multiple meanings.  Some mean now, as in the phrase “just in”.  Some are in the sense of only, like “just him”. A few are in the sense of justice. But there’s no consistent usage I can discern to make it a topic unto itself.

Raw data: 2014-12-11-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-11-WordStats.csv

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 3134 Fox News: Hannity
Most Mentions During Day 16232 CNN: Wolf

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 62424 45649 642322612 59 % 41 %
Fox News 58631 25131 390770735 64 % 36 %
MSNBC 34273 14366 171469138 57 % 43 %
Comedy Central 11695 9044 88622844 56 % 44 %
Al Jazeera 4493 2277 9777229 62 % 38 %
HLN 2983 1885 22117344 33 % 67 %
HBO 2449 2043 3215472 64 % 36 %
ABC 625 496 29625123 55 % 45 %
CBS 312 233 928560 56 % 44 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#torturereport 4761
#ericgarner 4488
#tcot 3299
#cia 3014
#kellyfile 2694
#cromnibus 2601
#lnyhbt 2466
#disclosure 2173
#morningjoe 2056
#maddow 1828

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #ac360 #amnesty #beachamp #benghazi #berkeleyprotests #billcosby #blacklivesmatter #brennan #c #c2gthr #cashinin #ccot #cheney #chicagoland #cia #ciareport #ciatorture #clinton #cnn #cnn10 #cnnheroes #colbertreport #cromnibus #dailyshow #dickcheney #dino13 #disclosure #ebola #edshow #ericgarner #ferguson #fireboehner #foxnews #gamergate #gitmo #gop #grandtourage #gruber #handsupdontshoot #hannity #hardball #hln #hongkong #icantbreathe #immigration #inners #iran #irs #isis #jessicachambers #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #lmao #lnyhbt #maddow #malala #melissaharrisperry #michaelbrown #morningjoe #msnbc #mtp #nakedjustice #navy #newday #news #nra #obama #obamacare #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #senate #sgp #shutitdown #specialreport #t #tamirrice #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thefive #thelead #tlot #torture #torturereport #traumacenternow #trayvonmartin #uniteblue #usa #wallstreet #walmart #whitecoats4blacklives

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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