Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-09
The crisis in Iraq and, specifically, ISIS was the dominant conversational topic on Cable News Twitter Saturday.
The crisis in Iraq and, specifically, ISIS was the dominant conversational topic on Cable News Twitter Saturday.
Iraq and Obama — that’s what people were talking about on Friday’s Cable News Twitter. And I see that ISIS has its own hashtag now that’s trending.
Amusingly, the acronym ISIS is just one of several contenders for the name of the rogue group spreading over the region. The US Government seems to have settled on ISIL, and there are other names in contention, so says the Washington Post.
I didn’t have to run the stats to know what the dominant topic for Thursday was going to be: Obama’s announcement of increased involvement in Iraq trying to stop ISIS. Obama himself was the dominant topic, with Iraq tied into the conversation.
President Obama managed to be the most talked about topic in Cable News Twitter on Wednesday. Amusingly, the hashtag #blackfish, which is left over from CNN’s special about killer whales, managed to edge out #ebola in popular hashtags…
Tuesday’s top topics were Israel with a sprinkling of ebola…