Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Wow … The Rachel Maddow Show had the best day overall yesterday, and The Ed Show had the best hour.  Rachel isn’t normally dominant on Twitter, so this is quite the day for her.  The mentions seem to be triggered by a deluge of #SOSVenezuela tweets, where people are lobbying via Twitter for coverage of events in that country.  It’s kind of interesting to see; when Ukrainian protests first fired up there was a similar deluge of tweets tagged with #Euromaiden.  Is this a harbinger of things to come?

It will be interesting to see if Rachel Maddow responds to the lobbying…

You can see more specifics of the tweets aimed at Rachel in this analysis.

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Florida’s 18th: Still Just Turnquest vs. Murphy in March

In a previous post, I discussed how Charlie Crist is failing to compete on Twitter, allowing Rick Scott to dominate the conversation. It’s a classic case of a challenger not putting out the effort to take on an incumbent.

In Florida’s 18th congressional district, however, we have the opposite: the challenger is exerting the effort necessary to overcome the advantages of his opponent’s incumbency. Calvin Turnquest has virtually matched Rep. Patrick Murphy’s presence on Twitter throughout March:

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Trending Topics in Cable News for April 1, 2014 — Cancel Colbert!

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-04-01

Well, dang. I would have thought Monday’s Colbert Report put the whole cancel Colbert things to rest, but I guess not: Colbert had the best (half-) hour, best day, and top hashtag.

Something else that’s  interesting — the three main cable news networks had almost exactly the same number of mentions, with MSNBC coming out on top (on, I presume, the strength of the news about the Affordable Care Act).  

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Crist Still Struggling on Twitter in March, 2014

With March in the books, let’s look at how Florida’s gubernatorial candidates faired on Twitter:

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The pattern that established itself at the end of February is holding up — Rick Scott is dominating on Twitter, with only occasional bursts of conversation about Charlie Crist.  And Nan Rich is still not getting much love from the twitterati.

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