Well, dang. I would have thought Monday’s Colbert Report put the whole cancel Colbert things to rest, but I guess not: Colbert had the best (half-) hour, best day, and top hashtag.
Something else that’s interesting — the three main cable news networks had almost exactly the same number of mentions, with MSNBC coming out on top (on, I presume, the strength of the news about the Affordable Care Act).
Although a lot of cable news shows seemed focused on the deadline to sign up for the affordable care act, the twitteratti pretty much shrugged it off, with tweets about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight still out-numbering ACA related ones. Clearly, the right is failing to generate new outrage while the left is failing to generate new excitement on the subject.
I suspect that, absent any new news, the ACA is going to have a long slide into obscurity, especially if some new outrage can be found.
Not a lot dominating the talk of cable news Twitter on Sunday. Interesting to see how CNN’s taken a hit overall, though. I’m not sure if it’s the waning of interest in the Malaysia Airlines flight, or the departure of the always controversial and heavily social media engaged Piers Morgan…
Not a lot of stand-out topics for Saturday, as the news was rather quiet around the world…
A couple of interesting observations: CNN’s mentioners were the most-male of any network, around 3-to-1. E! News is almost exactly the opposite. And with Piers Morgan now fading away from CNN, it will be interesting to see if the mentions of UK soccer start to disappear from cable news Twitter…
Interesting to see that protest hashtags won the day on Friday, with #cancelcolbert and #boycottcnn taking the top two positions…