Anderson Cooper’s interview with Donald Sterling dominated the conversation on Twitter, with his show getting the most mentions by far, the hashtag #DonaldSterling dominating, and the words “Donald” and “Sterling” being the most used in cable news tweets during the day.
Anderson Cooper just pulled in an amazing Twitter response on Monday, with over 11,000 mentions during his 8pm EDT interview with Donald Sterling.
Crack is wack, except when it comes to covering the Mayor of Toronto’s admitted crack usage. In that case, it’s just pure Twitter buzz gold for Anderson Cooper, who won the best in hour and best in day in the Cable News Twitter Ratings for 11/5 with his coverage of Rob Ford.
The Nielsens are in and confirm uptick in activity: Anderson Cooper 360, a week before that, had 108,000 viewers in the 24-54 age bracket, while last night got 212,000 viewers, nearly double. Last week he got 1092 mentions during the show, while this week he got about 3500.
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 | 3498 | CNN: Anderson Cooper 360 |
| Most Mentions During day | 7283 | CNN: Anderson Cooper 360 |
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| MSNBC | 42438 | 17681 | 205576776 | 53 % | 47 % |
| CNN | 40375 | 31088 | 422286743 | 57 % | 43 % |
| Fox News | 31093 | 18188 | 98683143 | 63 % | 37 % |
| Comedy Central | 7271 | 6156 | 16055373 | 58 % | 42 % |
| E | 2996 | 2087 | 26456955 | 24 % | 76 % |
| HLN | 1927 | 1076 | 12508316 | 39 % | 61 % |
| HBO | 971 | 753 | 2407932 | 66 % | 34 % |
| FXX | 153 | 116 | 867413 | 63 % | 38 % |
For networks that are not predominantly news, only news(-like) shows are included. See the detailed listings below for precise shows