Colbert Wins Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, 12/17/14

The waning days of the Colbert Report are giving it a strong finish on Cable News Twitter and a win in both best day and best hour on Wednesday.  It was also a surprisingly weak day for the rest of Cable News on Twitter, with Colbert being followed by Hannity, a re-run of Colbert at 9am EST, Chris Hayes, and The Kelly File:

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ICYMI, my blog post about the Sony Hack and why the Sony Executives are not completely innocent.

Raw data for the day: 2014-12-17-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-17 Schedule.csv

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#AskACop dominates Cable News Twitter on Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-12-16

One tweet ruled cabled news Twitter on Tuesday:

Because of that, #askacop trended heavily — mostly in response to this and related tweets:

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Raw data for the day: 2014-12-16-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-16-WordStats.csv

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