Well here’s a switch: Hannity, who usually wins best day,  won best hour on Cable News on Tuesday, while The Five, when you take into consideration all their host accounts, won the day overall.

The Five’s counts were hugely inflated by one tweet by @WheelsOfTheSyst:

Which mentions The Five’s Kim Guilfoyle and was retweeted over 5000 times.  Twitter’s funny that way.

Note: As of this week I am no longer counting Chuck Todd’s mentions in The Daily Rundown’s counts.  That caused some problems with Monday’s counts, but it appears to have resolved itself for Tuesday’s.

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Monday saw The Kelly File and Hannity start the week with their typical, winning ways.

Note: Twitter didn’t want to give me tweets for the Daily Run Down for some reason for Monday.  I’ve concluded it’s a fluke in the API that I can’t do much about.  So ignore the count of zero for the day.

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I added John Oliver’s HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to the ratings mix.  Whether that’s appropriate or not is an interesting issue, but as you will see below it is a non-trivial change.  You can always review the detailed numbers to factor it in our out of the rankings, and I will try to footnote things if the show tops the charts as it does this week.

Sunday was somewhat a tie between MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show and HBO’s Last Week Tonight for most mentions during a broadcast (see note 1 below the jump).  In terms of most mentions during the day, Meet The Press won, although if you remove it from the running (given that many of the mentions are driven by broadcast TV rather than cable TV), then The Melissa Harris-Perry Show would have won that as well. (See note 2 below the jump).

All in all, then, The Melissa Harris-Perry Show won Cable News Twitter Sunday.

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Saturdays usually belong to Fox News’ Cashin’ In, and yesterday was no different for Eric Bolling’s half-hour show.  With just a half-hour of air-time, he managed to more than double the Twitter engagement of his competitors — in and out of the same hour.  Imagine how well he’d do with a full hour?

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Friday saw our new normal of Megyn Kelly getting the best hour and Sean Hannity winning best day. Megyn Kelly has really managed to take the lead in Twitter these days, garnering numbers that used to be unheard of for Fox News.  I have to wonder if there’s been a renewed effort at Fox on social media; if so, to whomever is doing it: job well done.

It’s also worth noting that Bill Maher managed to almost eclipse Hannity in total tweets for the day….

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