Gamergate came to the Colbert Report, giving it the best hour and day on Cable News Twitter.  The Kelly File, Hannity, Morning Joe, and Chris Hayes followed (in that order):

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In somewhat related news, MSNBC has been holding daily Twitter chats with its hosts on the subject of the election.  So far, 3 have been done (at the time of this writing).  Melissa Harris-Perry’s was by and far the most popular:

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Looks like Matthews and Díaz-Balart have been schooled by the Professor!

Raw data for the daily shows: 2014-10-29-ShowStats.csv

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Ah, the Biebs is still working his magic for CNN’s New Day with his selfie tweet with the hashtag #newday.  So we can discard New Day’s apparent best day win, unfortunately. But The Kelly File’s best hour win is solid, an Hannity’s second place for best day really is a win.

Here’s the top 30 hourly winners:

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And here’s the raw data for the day: 2014-10-28-ShowStats.csv

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Another strong Monday for The Kelly File, while CNN’s New Day (for which I also track the hosts’ Twitter accounts) won the day overall.  Well maybe… Justin Bieber tweeted something unrelated to the CNN show, but used it’s hashtag (#newday).  So it’s probably not that great of news for CNN.  Although if they can get the Biebs on their show …

Want to know who was runner up? Sort and search the data to your heart’s content? See the full data here: 2014-10-27-ShowStats.csv

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Sunday was a strong day for Melissa Harris-Perry Show, winning best hour and best day.

Raw data for the day: 2014-10-26-ShowStats.csv

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Another outstanding Saturday for Cashin’ In with Eric Bolling and crew on Fox News. Cashin’ In’s mentions during its hour were more than the total mentions of the next 7 shows combined:

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This is a time where I should have used a “log plot” because Cashin’ In did so much better than anyone else … but then you really wouldn’t get the full effect.

Here’s the raw data of all Cable News shows shown on Saturday (not counting misc documentaries): 2014-10-25-ShowStats.csv

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