Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-03-07

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 dominated the talk on Twitter Friday. There was no close second…

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-03-06

The events in Ukraine continued to dominate Twitter talk about Cable News on Thursday, but Rachel Maddow’s “Why We Did It” documentary about the origins of the Iraq war also make a strong appearance in the top trending topics.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-03-05

Not quite as strong of a day as yesterday for Ukraine, but it’s still in top spot.  Interestingly, Obama is trending higher than Putin, which means the focus has shifted a bit from the events to the reaction to the events.  Which makes sense, I suppose, given that on the ground not much is happening at the moment.

I note the appearance of “#turkishncosdeathfasting” in the list of hashtags.  Let’s see if that turns into the next big story the way the early appearance of Ukrainian hashtags predicted the events there.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-03-04

Events in Ukraine completely dominated cable news Twitter talk on Tuesday. Interestingly, while CNN usually takes first place by network, CNN dropped to third after Fox and MSNBC, leading me to suspect that the discussion of events had a very partisan tinge to it. Similarly, Obama, Putin, and Ukraine were top words mentioned in tweets…

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