Sunday’s conversation on Cable News Twitter was a mish-mash of topics. The Global Citizen Festival talk continued past midnight. Police and Protesters in Ferguson managed to stir up conversation. And Obama and the world were in play:
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You can download the top 100 words 2014-09-28-WordStats and tags 2014-09-28-TagStats for more details.
Well this is different! CNN gets a clean sweep of the day Sunday with Parts Unknown getting the most mentions during an hour and CNN International getting the most throughout the day.
Following Parts Unknown was the 11am showing of The Melissa Harris-Perry Show, HBO’s Last Week Tonight, the 10am showing of MHP, and the 9am Up with Steve Kornacki:
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You can see all the data for the day below, or download the raw CSV data here: 2014-09-28-ShowStats
The Global Citizen Festival dominated the shows on Cable News yesterday, and so it’s not surprising that the topics from the festival dominated Cable News Trending Topics. When you take the Global Citizen Festival out of the equation, then Fox News’ Cashin’ In would have dominated the conversation…
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MSNBC’s live telecast of the Global Citizen Festival swept the day on Saturday, winning both the best hour and best day in Cable News Twitter. Fox News’ Cashin’ In came in second (normally it is first) for best hour and best day. When you look at the charts for the day, you can see how dominant the festival was:
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It will be interesting to see how well the Nielsen ratings match this burst in Twitter activity.
It’s also no surprise that the festival and its performers dominated the topics in Cable News Twitter as well.
Raw daily show stats (CSV file): 2014-09-27-ShowStats
Yesterday, we learned that if you piss off One Direction fans you’re going to hear about it. The Daily Show ran a skit that said a new terrorist supergroup was forming that would include a member of One Direction, and their fans were not happy. The hashtag #thedailyshowgonetoofar was used a lot. Over 200K times as of this writing. The stats below only pick up the use of this hashtag when a screen name or hashtag of The Daily Show was also included. But trust me, it was all over twitter.
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You can see the segment in question at the beginning of this clip.
Other than The Daily Show, ISIS seems to be the hot topic on Friday.
Top 100 words used (CSV data): 2014-09-26-WordStats
Top 100 hashtags used (CSV data): 2014-09-26-TagStats