Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-16

While The Ed Show had the best hour during the day, there was something more interesting afoot yesterday.  This tweet:

Got retweeted so many times (over 18K times at the time I took the screen shot) that it twitter bombed the tag cloud for the day.  It may end up putting AC 360 in the top spot for today (1/17).

It’s an example of how social media can be overcome by waves of tweets (and retweets) that drown out other conversations, but in the long run don’t really have a lasting meaning or impact.

Top Shows for the day:

To see how the rest of the shows did yesterday, see the detailed ratings here.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-15

• The Ed Show was back in its top slot for most mentions during an hour on Wednesday.
• #Bridgegate has fallen below #Benghazi in popularity, although “Christie” was used more frequently than “Benghazi” in tweets.

Top Shows for the day:

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:

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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…

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