Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Charles McGuinness

Wow … The Rachel Maddow Show had the best day overall yesterday, and The Ed Show had the best hour. Rachel isn’t normally dominant on Twitter, so this is quite the day for her. The mentions seem to be triggered by a deluge of #SOSVenezuela tweets, where people are lobbying via Twitter for coverage of events in that country. It’s kind of interesting to see; when Ukrainian protests first fired up there was a similar deluge of tweets tagged with #Euromaiden. Is this a harbinger of things to come?

It will be interesting to see if Rachel Maddow responds to the lobbying…

You can see more specifics of the tweets aimed at Rachel in this analysis.

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Florida’s 18th: Still Just Turnquest vs. Murphy in March

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Charles McGuinness

In a previous post, I discussed how Charlie Crist is failing to compete on Twitter, allowing Rick Scott to dominate the conversation. It’s a classic case of a challenger not putting out the effort to take on an incumbent.

In Florida’s 18th congressional district, however, we have the opposite: the challenger is exerting the effort necessary to overcome the advantages of his opponent’s incumbency. Calvin Turnquest has virtually matched Rep. Patrick Murphy’s presence on Twitter throughout March: