Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-14
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…
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2196 | MSNBC: Morning Joe |
| Most Mentions During Day | 13443 | CNN: Piers Morgan Live |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| MSNBC | 36014 | 17032 | 162597836 | 51 % | 49 % |
| CNN | 34210 | 23305 | 399962391 | 65 % | 35 % |
| Fox News | 25859 | 13385 | 139537408 | 62 % | 38 % |
| E | 10678 | 8102 | 72088580 | 27 % | 73 % |
| Comedy Central | 7842 | 6309 | 16076845 | 63 % | 37 % |
| Al Jazeera | 3561 | 2229 | 14878697 | 58 % | 42 % |
| HLN | 2807 | 1761 | 13013112 | 43 % | 57 % |
| HBO | 2341 | 1965 | 6084978 | 70 % | 30 % |
Most popular hastags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #thecycle | 4328 |
| #tcot | 3693 |
| #lnyhbt | 2904 |
| #inners | 2162 |
| #morningjoe | 2053 |
| #maddow | 2030 |
| #benghazi | 1740 |
| #chrischristie | 1566 |
| #goldenglobes | 1564 |
| #p2 | 1513 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #2a #2ailliterates #ac360 #ac360later #aca #amnesty #ausopen #bb4sp #benghazi #bieber #bigquestions #breaking #bridgegate #ccot #chrischristie #christie #cnn #colonials #crossfire #dailyshow #edshow #egypt #glee #goldenglobes #gop #greta #hannity #hardball #honorchriskyle #hottieoftheweek #hr36 #inners #insomnia #iran #iraq #irs #johnmayer #justdoit #justice4alfredwright #justiceforbenghazi4 #kellyfile #kellythomas #kurdstogeneva2 #lastword #libcrib #lnyhbt #lonesurvivor #maddow #mahomies #makedclisten #marijuana #morningjoe #mostrecent #msnbc #nerdland #newday #news #newtown #nra #nsa #obama #obamacare #ocra #ofa #orpuw #outfront #p2 #petition #pjnet #politicsnation #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #roswell #rsac #sales #sandy #snowden #sot #specialreport #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #texas #tgdn #thecycle #thefive #thelead #theview #tired #tlot #unemployment #uniteblue #uppers #westvirginia #wiunion #wrestlingtvshows #wvchemleak #yankees |
Word Cloud across all shows
| 12 again america another anything away back benghazi bieber’s boy can case chris christie cocaine day dead details drug even finally first found fox get go going good gop got great gun guns help home just justin killed kissing know life like long love make man many mexico middle morning’s movie much need never new news nothing now obama old one people philly please police president raid real really republicans right said say says scandal school see shooting shoots show since state still stop story take talking texting think time tonight us want watch water west will wrong year yet |