Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-30

With the announcement of the Texas patient who tested positive for Ebola, Cable News Twitter naturally was consumed by discussion of the news:

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This pushed all other topics to the margin, including the ever popular ISIS…

Also interesting to note: Since Ebola is (mostly) non-political, the breaking news lifted CNN to the top network and put The Situation Room into the top 5 of Cable News shows on Twitter.

CSV data for the day: 2014-09-30-WordStats.csv 2014-09-30-TagStats.csv

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-28

Sunday’s conversation on Cable News Twitter was a mish-mash of topics.  The Global Citizen Festival talk continued past midnight.  Police and Protesters in Ferguson managed to stir up conversation.  And Obama and the world were in play:

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You can download the top 100 words 2014-09-28-WordStats and tags 2014-09-28-TagStats for more details.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-27

The Global Citizen Festival dominated the shows on Cable News yesterday, and so it’s not surprising that the topics from the festival dominated Cable News Trending Topics.  When you take the Global Citizen Festival out of the equation, then Fox News’ Cashin’ In would have dominated the conversation…

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-26

Yesterday, we learned that if you piss off One Direction fans you’re going to hear about it. The Daily Show ran a skit that said a new terrorist supergroup was forming that would include a member of One Direction, and their fans were not happy.  The hashtag #thedailyshowgonetoofar was used a lot.  Over 200K times as of this writing.  The stats below only pick up the use of this hashtag when a screen name or hashtag of The Daily Show was also included.  But trust me, it was all over twitter.

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You can see the segment in question at the beginning of this clip.

Other than The Daily Show, ISIS seems to be the hot topic on Friday.

Top 100 words used (CSV data): 2014-09-26-WordStats
Top 100 hashtags used (CSV data): 2014-09-26-TagStats

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-25

Eric Holder’s resignation topped the trending topics in Cable News Twitter on Thursday, with Obama and ISIS in a not-close second and third places.

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Top 100 words for the day: 2014-09-25-WordStats
Top 100 hashtags for the day: 2014-09-25-TagStats

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