Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-04-09
The mass stabbing in Pennsylvania was the dominant topic on cable news Twitter yesterday.
Some amusing things, though:
The misspelling of Vladimir, “Vladamir”, was much more popular than the correct spelling. I guess folks feel off-putin by Russian first name.
The hashtag “#TheCycle”, used by MSNBC’s show The Cycle, was the most popular hashtag related to cable news yesterday. Was the show suddenly popular? Did they say something provocative?
Sadly, no, it was a bunch of people using it for purposes unrelated to the show. A big bunch, with tweets like:
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Unless that’s emoji commentary on Abby Huntsman, I think we can safely assume the show was not the topic…
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2101 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 10302 | E: E! News |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| CNN | 35778 | 26456 | 362714806 | 55 % | 45 % |
| Fox News | 32810 | 16791 | 194060523 | 62 % | 38 % |
| MSNBC | 32265 | 17621 | 157179892 | 52 % | 48 % |
| Comedy Central | 11928 | 10446 | 15308258 | 65 % | 35 % |
| E | 10302 | 6513 | 337485842 | 24 % | 76 % |
| HLN | 9773 | 5190 | 25542965 | 64 % | 36 % |
| Al Jazeera | 3028 | 1947 | 17537644 | 58 % | 42 % |
| HBO | 715 | 530 | 3346402 | 67 % | 33 % |
Most popular hastags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #thecycle | 5820 |
| #tcot | 5035 |
| #lnyhbt | 3253 |
| #mh370 | 2361 |
| #mb_europe | 2157 |
| #maddow | 1820 |
| #tgdn | 1696 |
| #teaparty | 1565 |
| #kellyfile | 1517 |
| #eonlinechat | 1425 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #2a #370 #370qs #4totalpings #5things #ac360 #aca #adriannestrong #ajamstream #alphamalemadness #batb #benghazi #boycottnancy #breakingnews #bundyranch #c2gthr #campliberty #cancelcolbert #cavuto #ccot #chicagoland #cir #civilrightsact #cnn #crossfire #dailyshow #edshow #egypt #eonlinechat #equalpay #flight370 #foxbusiness #foxnews #franklinregional #gonnabeagoo #gop #hannity #hap #hardball #heartbleed #hottieofthenews #hottieoftheweek #inners #iran #iraq #irs #kellyfile #kingsofleon #lastword #lbj #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #mb_europe #measles #mh370 #morningjoe #muslimbrotherhood #nerdland #newday #news #nra #obamacare #ocra #onthecase #oscarpistorius #outfront #p2 #partsunknown #paschoolstabbing #pjnet #politicsnation #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #renewui #ripultimatewarrior #russia #sisterpatriots #sosvenezuela #specialreport #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thecycle #thefive #thelead #thesurvivordiaries #tlot #uk #ukraine #uniteblue #uniteright #waar #wcw #wiunion #wwe |
Word Cloud across all shows
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