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…
