As you’d expect, Ebola continued to dominate Cable News conversations on Wednesday. Not just a little bit, but almost completely. You have to go down to the 48th most frequently used word or hashtag to find ISIS, which means it’s pretty much not on anyone’s radar at the moment…
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Raw data for the day: 2014-10-15-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-15-WordStats.csv
Ebola, ebola, ebola …
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Raw data for the day: 2014-10-14-TagStats.csv 2014-10-14-WordStats.csv
Ebola continues to dominate US Cable News Twitter, while ISIS is lurking around in 2nd place…
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One thing is for sure, with Ebola consistently topping the news and showing no signs of diminishing soon, the election isn’t going to have the media focus that partisans were hoping for.
The announcement of a healthcare worker in Texas contracting Ebola dominated the conversation on Cable News Twitter Sunday, with events in the middle east taking a distant second. There was still a bit of Friday’s ALMA awards in the mentions, but that was dying out pretty fast.
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Raw counts for the day: 2014-10-12-TagStats.csv, 2014-10-12-WordStats.csv
Usually all the news is negative. So it’s a pleasant surprise to see Love, Thank, and Beautiful as the most popular words:
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What caused that spike? Just one tweet:
Demi Lovato wins the trending topic for the day! Admittedly, the ALMA awards are questionable about whether they should be included in Cable News Twitter counts, but since MSNBC put a lot of effort into promoting and showing them I did..
You can download the top 100 counts for words and tags for the day from these files, or read on for more details: 2014-10-11-WordStats.csv 2014-10-11-TagStats.csv