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
| against america american back big bill black brennan case cheney chokehold cia co colbert congress congressional contusion daughter dick die eric et even father former garner’s go going good guest hearing help host house in’ indictments irving jobs just knee know kyrie lack last left like make many need needs never new news next now obama officer officially one people police president protesting read reality report required return right say says see senate show spending spot staffers stages stop story taken thanks think time today told tonight torture truth ufo us used vote walk want war watch will work yes |