Megyn Kelly hit 600,000 followers on Twitter, an event that sparked a huge round of comments — so much so, that it pushed The Kelly File into first place for best hour of the day yesterday. Right behind her was Morning Joe.
Meanwhile, Piers Morgan continued to dominate the day overall, as he often does, by his unrelenting and prolific tweeting.
News out of New Jersey drove mentions of The Ed Show and Morning Joe, UK football mentions propelled talk with Piers Morgan, and discussion of the Japanese dolphin slaughter drove the most Twitter conversation on Monday.
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2575 | MSNBC: The Ed Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 22150 | CNN: Piers Morgan Live |
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| CNN | 54963 | 37572 | 374410538 | 61 % | 39 % |
| MSNBC | 36662 | 12894 | 152534924 | 50 % | 50 % |
| Fox News | 23020 | 12548 | 118132576 | 64 % | 36 % |
| E | 9836 | 7772 | 72956961 | 21 % | 79 % |
| HLN | 4691 | 2360 | 17761302 | 27 % | 73 % |
| Al Jazeera | 4256 | 2854 | 43959382 | 61 % | 39 % |
| Comedy Central | 3776 | 3060 | 8452082 | 62 % | 38 % |
| HBO | 2231 | 1926 | 14340359 | 66 % | 34 % |
| Hashtag | Count |
| #tcot | 4459 |
| #helpcovedolphins | 4303 |
| #lnyhbt | 3435 |
| #taiji | 3096 |
| #morningjoe | 2072 |
| #inners | 1879 |
| #edshow | 1808 |
| #p2 | 1734 |
| #tgdn | 1602 |
| #uniteblue | 1471 |
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A strong day for The Ed Show as news about Hoboken and the ongoing “Bridgegate” scandal drove conversation on Twitter. Piers Morgan had a variety of UK football related mentions, as usual, that buoyed his daily numbers; without those, Morning Joe would have most likely won the day overall.
Note that all times are US Eastern Time. See notes at end for further explanations. For earlier articles on cable news twitter ratings, please see this.
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2575 | MSNBC: The Ed Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 22150 | CNN: Piers Morgan Live |
After Saturday’s block-buster revelations about the Christie administration’s arm-twisting of Hoboken’s mayor, other topics returned to the conversation about cable news on Twitter Sunday. Nonetheless, both Up with Steve Kornacki and the Melissa Harris-Perry Show triggered huge volumes of conversation on Twitter throughout the day.
Other than that, there was no one dominant theme in the Twitter conversation, as you can see in the tag and word clouds below…
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 4014 | MSNBC: Melissa Harris-Perry Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 9153 | MSNBC: Up w/Steve Kornacki |
You can see the complete ratings for all shows hour by hour in this post.
It was a one-two punch for MSNBC on Twitter, as Melissa Harris-Perry’s 11am hour got the most mentions of any cable news show while Up with Steve Kornacki got the most mentions throughout the day.
Note that all times are US Eastern Time. See notes at end for further explanations. For earlier articles on cable news twitter ratings, please see this.
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 4014 | MSNBC: Melissa Harris-Perry Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 9153 | MSNBC: Up w/Steve Kornacki |