Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-04

The conversation shifted to Israel (from Hamas and Gaza) on Monday.  Interestingly, despite the weekend arrival of ebola patient Dr. Kent Brantly to Atlanta, there wasn’t a lot of talk about ebola on monday.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-03

The ongoing conflict in Gaza dominated the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Sunday. Ebola barely made the list…

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-02

Every so often, a group with a cause will flood Twitter with messages that mention various cable news channels and groups.  The goal is almost to raise awareness and affect the news coverage.  A while ago, there was an Iranian group and before that a venezuelan group.  Yesterday, the hashtag #interviewpalestinians rose to the top position in US Cable News Twitter.

There were about 7.5K tweets that went out with the hashtag, which put it far ahead of any other topic.  It also brought the word “gaza” to the top of the lists.  It’s hard to say that all of this will do the backers any good, but it’s clear that their voices have been heard.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-01

Gaza and Ebola managed to dominate the Cable News Twitter conversation on Friday, August 1, 2014.  In terms of words used, Hamas and Israel were used more often than Gaza, which tends to make me think the conversation was more about the politics than the on the ground events.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-07-31

Gaza and Ebola were the top topics in cable news Twitter for Thursday, July 31…

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