Another day, another win for The Ed Show…
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 | 2055 | MSNBC: The Ed Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 7889 | E: E! News |
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 1780 | MSNBC: The Ed Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 9185 | E: E! News |
See the detailed ratings for hour by hour, show by show breakdowns, or read on to see what else was trending on Twitter on Cable News for Wednesday:
Cable News Twitter Ratings for 2014-01-15
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 1780 | MSNBC: The Ed Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 9185 | E: E! News |
Following are the hour by hour, show by show ratings:
There’s a lot of interesting details in the trending topics for yesterday, but probably the most strange is that the hashtag #TheCycle was the most used of any cable new show’s. You can see this in the hourly stats:
At first this might seem to be grounds for congratulations, but it turns out that thousands upon thousands of them were retweets or variations on this tweet:
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I feel fairly confident in saying that this emoji art is not in response to the show — and it’s not spam. It’s just a random, very popular message that overloaded the hashtag for the show. This is an example of why it’s hard to get perfect statistics from Twitter, and why you need to look deeper at times into what is really happening when something unusual is taking place…
You can see how The Cycle performed in its time slot and the rest of the results for Cable News in the hourly detailed ratings. Otherwise, continue on for the top trending topics…
Here are the detailed hour by hour, show by show Cable News Twitter Ratings for Tuesday, January 14, 2014…Once again, Morning Joe wins the best hour. Maybe the addition of Thomas Roberts to the morning is having an effect?