Trending Topics in Cable News for Tuesday, March 4, 2014 — Showdown in Ukraine

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-03-04

Events in Ukraine completely dominated cable news Twitter talk on Tuesday. Interestingly, while CNN usually takes first place by network, CNN dropped to third after Fox and MSNBC, leading me to suspect that the discussion of events had a very partisan tinge to it. Similarly, Obama, Putin, and Ukraine were top words mentioned in tweets…

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 1780 MSNBC: The Ed Show
Most Mentions During Day 10938 E: E! News

See this post for detailed show by show breakdown for the day.

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
Fox News 27802 14835 124456798 64 % 36 %
MSNBC 26465 11674 162403457 56 % 44 %
CNN 22847 16310 330632055 61 % 39 %
E 10938 7766 69204746 19 % 81 %
Comedy Central 6957 5862 19078331 59 % 41 %
Al Jazeera 3408 2250 15515192 60 % 40 %
HLN 2365 1404 11320083 36 % 64 %
HBO 666 517 1396436 65 % 35 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#tcot 4885
#ukraine 4628
#lnyhbt 3007
#putin 1573
#hottieoftheweek 1485
#maddow 1461
#morningjoe 1443
#p2 1437
#inners 1417
#hannity 1409

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #america #bachelor #bahrain #benghazi #breaking #btr #c2gthr #campliberty #ccot #charterschools #cnn #colbertreport #crimea #crossfire #dailyshow #discoverhaven #dnc #dwts #edshow #foxnews #glee #gop #hannity #hardball #history #hottieoftheweek #independence #inners #iran #iraq #kellyfile #keystonexl #kiev #kysen #lastword #latism #liarliar #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #mardigras #morningjoe #msnbc #mtvmovieawards #nationalpancakeday #nazi #newday #news #nra #nyc #obama #obamacare #ocra #onthecase #oscar #oscarpistorius #oscars #oscars2014 #outfront #p2 #pfw #pistorius #pjnet #politicsnation #potatohead #putin #realtime #rednationrising #redsox #reiders #renewui #russia #selfie #shoul #sitroom #stillhurts #sxsw #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #texas #tgdn #thefive #thelead #tlot #tpp #truth #twisters #twoandahalfmen #ukraine #uniteblue #uppers #usa #venezuela #wiunion #yespimpmysummerball

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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