#Blackfish has a long tail, but it looks like we’re finally seeing the end of it…

The Ed Show is the only show that breaks into the 2000 mention category for the day; otherwise it seems a slow day in cable news land.

Note that all times are US Eastern Time. See notes at end for further explanations. For earlier articles on cable news twitter ratings, please see this.

Cable News Ratings for 2013-10-29

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Overall ratings by network

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I see the blackfish is starting to swim away ….

Note that all times are US Eastern Time. See notes at end for further explanations. For earlier articles on cable news twitter ratings, please see this.

Cable News Ratings for 2013-10-28

Top Shows for the day:

Overall ratings by network

For networks that are not predominantly news, only news(-like) shows are included. See the detailed listings below for precise shows

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That ol’ blackfish keeps surfacing on Twitter as another rerun of the documentary gets the most tweets overall during Sunday.

Note that all times are US Eastern Time. See notes at end for further explanations. For earlier articles on cable news twitter ratings, please see this.

Cable News Ratings for 2013-10-27

Top Shows for the day:

Overall ratings by network

For networks that are not predominantly news, only news(-like) shows are included. See the detailed listings below for precise shows

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A split day for MSNBC’s early shows: Up with Steve Kornacki gets best-in-hour, while Melissa Harris-Perry gets the most tweets for the day.  Meanwhile, #blackfish continues to be a killer …

Note that all times are US Eastern Time. See notes at end for further explanations. For earlier articles on cable news twitter ratings, please see this.

Cable News Ratings for 2013-10-26

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A surprise win for The Kelly File in best-in-hour, which was driven by her coverage of Obamacare and its history that prompted comments and retweets of links to her video. Piers Morgan won best best-in-day, but only because I didn’t included the ongoing tweets for Stephen Colbert’s “#lordofthetweets” battle with Stephen Fry (as the Colbert Report doesn’t appear on Fridays).

Up Late with Alec Baldwin, in its second week, did fairly poorly in comparison with the rest of its MSNBC line-up.  There are  probably a couple of reasons for this, the biggest being that the show is not live and does not really drive social media engagement.  Real Time with Bill Maher did far better, even if it is on the pay-network HBO, but it encourages interaction on Twitter in the show.

 I’ll make the same disclaimer I did for Thursday: CNN’s Blackfish documentary got a tremendous amount of activity on Twitter, and if it were included in the list of cable news shows it would have won:

Top Shows for the day (counting Blackfish):

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