CNN’s picking up … internationally. Thursday saw The Kelly File win best hour, and CNN International win best day.  It’s probably safe to say that a lot of CNNi’s traffic was not domestic, but it’s hard to say (less than 2% of all tweets have any geographical information with them, which should make you always suspect any conclusions people draw about geography).

Following CNNi for best day was The Five, Hannity, Kelly, and Colbert.  Following Kelly for best hour was Hayes, Morning Joe, Ed Show, and Hannity. A quiet day for Sean, who is normally #1 for the day and #2 for the hour!

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Raw data for the day: 2014-10-09-ShowStats.csv

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One of the weaknesses reporting Twitter metrics for Cable News shows is that there’s no bright line between cable news related tweets and those that have nothing to do with cable news.  Such was the case on Wednesday, when Taylor Swift sent this tweet:

Look who she mentions!

That one tweet generated (at the time of writing) 8,800 retweets, which was enough to put Ronan Farrow into first place for both his hour and the whole day.

Is this meaningful? Is this reasonable? Not really, but it’s only a bit worse than Sean Hannity whose hours of radio broadcasts generate tweets that are counted for his Fox News show.

After Farrow, the best hour winners were Kelly, Colbert, Hannity, and Hayes.  After Farrow, the best day winners were CNNi, Kelly, Hannity, and Colbert.

Top 30 shows for the day (by best hour):

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Raw data here: 2014-10-08-ShowStats.csv

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The Kelly File won its normal best hour, but a surprise winner showed up for best day: The Colbert Report!  Following Colbert for best day was Hannity (very close behind), CNNi, Kelly, and Maddow.  Following Kelly for best hour was Maddow, Hayes, Hannity, and Colbert:

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You can download the raw data for the day here: 2014-10-07-ShowStats.csv

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I guess Piers Morgan didn’t do the trick for Hannity, as The Kelly File was still able to top Sean for best hour, leaving him with his usual best day.  (To be fair, though, I didn’t include tweets that only mentioned Piers, which could have tipped the scales).

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All in all it was a quiet day. Following Kelly for best hour was Hannity, Hayes, Morning Joe, and Maddow.  Following Hannity for best day was CNNi, Kelly, Morning Joe, and The Five.

Raw show stats: 2014-10-06-ShowStats.csv

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This one’s a bit interesting: Richard Lui, who was anchoring the 3pm hour of news on MSNBC Sunday, won Cable News Twitter yesterday with the best hour.  The best day overall was had by CNN International.  Following Lui was Parts Unknown, both hours of Kornacki, and HBO’s Last Week Tonight:

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As you can see, Lui and Bourdain were pretty much in a league of their own in terms of Twitter engagement.  It’s also interesting to see how well Last Week Tonight is engaging: the two HBO shows that are “news” (Real Time with Bill Maher and John Oliver’s LWT) both do fairly well.

Raw CSV data for the day: 2014-10-05-ShowStats.csv

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