Cable News Twitter Ratings for Sunday, December 8, 2013

The Melissa Harris Show has a great hour and a great day on Sunday, with somewhere between 2x and 3x the number of mentions she normally receives.  Compare that to just the day before: 1665 mentions in her best hour vs. Sunday’s 3011, and 4374 total mentions vs. Sunday’s 7062.  It’s amazing what the right topics and events will do!

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Cable News Twitter Ratings for Thursday, December 5, 2013 — Goodbye Nelson Mandela

As we look at the hashtags used in conjunction with cable news shows, we can see that Nelson Mandela’s passing  dominated the conversation Thursday on Twitter.

With Martin Bashir gone from MSNBC, I’m tracking him as a separate topic for a while to see how long the conversation about him hangs on.  Assuming it tapers off, I’ll eventually drop him from the reports…

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Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — Goodbye, Martin Bashir

It was announced Wednesday that Martin Bashir had resigned from MSNBC, and that was good enough to give his show the best hour during the day — even though he wasn’t there. It was hard to count all the mentions of Martin himself on Twitter, as people were inconsistent in how they mentioned him, but my estimates are that, for the day, there were between 16K and 75K tweets that discussed him (depending upon how fuzzy the search).

What’s interesting is not really how many tweets he got on Wednesday (or even on Thursday), but how many he will get in the days to come: Is the anger (and, on some folks’ part, joy) about his being seemingly forced out going to last, or will it all be forgotten in a week.  We’ll watch.

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