What a mixed-up, topsy-turvy day Tuesday was: Hannity won best hour, but Chris Hayes brought in an incredibly large number of mentions throughout the day, giving him a clear win of Cable News Twitter.
Hannity is often the day-long winner, owing to his media footprint. And Chris Hayes occasionally wins best hour. But two have Hannity with best hour but Hayes with best day is very, very unusual — mostly because it’s so unusual for Hayes to win a day.
Ferguson Mo. and Robin Williams are the top trending topics in Cable News Twitter for Monday. Interesting that CNN managed to win top network, as often happens when non-political news is breaking…
Chris Hayes swept Monday’s Cable News Twitter ratings with best hour and best day…
Mea Culpa. I have failed to accurately capture the tweets from “Cashin In”, which resulted in a dramatic and rankings altering distortion in the mention counts. Below is the revised counts for last Saturday, which shows how incredibly well the half-hour show performed on Twitter. Future Saturdays will have the correct counts.
As to how this happened, it’s just a case of my not digging hard enough. The Fox News page for “The Cost of Freedom” is devoid of Twitter user accounts and hashtags, and when I was creating the database I stopped at that.
Thank you to Fox News Fan aka @FNC_Ladies_Rule for setting me straight. I appreciate all questions and especially corrections!
The police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, dominated Cable News Twitter’s conversation on Sunday.