Malala Yousafzai’s (co-)winning of the Nobel Peace Prize dominated cable news Twitter on Friday, with her co-winner Satyarthu Kailash coming in second place (on Twitter). Ebola ended up way down the list, and even ISIS couldn’t make it onto the leaderboard, being blocked by the ALMA awards:
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Ebola continued to be the top topic in Cable News Twitter on Thursday. Also percolating were ISIS, police actions in St. Louis, autism, and education secretary Arne Duncan:
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Top 100 words and tags for the day: 2014-10-09-WordStats.csv 2014-10-09-TagStats.csv
As ebola claims its first victim in the USA, it also holds on to its place as the top topic in Cable News Twitter. ISIS came in a distant second:
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Top 100 words and tags for the day:
Even though Leon Panetta was out making the rounds Tuesday, trying to sell his book with some sensationalist second-guessing of the President, he wasn’t able to dislodge Ebola from the top of the trending topics list or change the levels of conversation around ISIS or Benghazi:
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Perhaps it’s been because conservative reaction to Panetta has not been welcoming (see the comments in this article for an example). Panetta landed at #34 in the list, right behind “Flu”.
Top 100 words and tags for the day: 2014-10-07-TagStats.csv, 2014-10-07-WordStats.csv
Ebola returns to the top of mind for Cable News Twitter on Monday, pushing ISIS back to second place.
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Top 100 words and tags for the day: