Ferguson Events Dominate Cable News Twitter for Sunday, August 17, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-17

Ferguson was the dominant topic for Sunday, by far.  You can tell who was and was not heavily covering events by the network rankings: both CNN and MSNBC scored over 60K mentions for the day while Fox News fell short of 30K.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 12148 MSNBC: Chris Hayes in Ferguson
Most Mentions During Day 15150 MSNBC: MSNBC Ferguson Coverage

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 65902 37566 367401029 48 % 52 %
MSNBC 61810 27022 213163581 50 % 50 %
Fox News 29041 14884 150442338 63 % 37 %
Al Jazeera 2509 1936 6580869 55 % 45 %
HBO 862 493 920057 47 % 53 %
Comedy Central 780 616 2312406 59 % 41 %
CBS 521 412 1282976 42 % 58 %
HLN 497 366 1639969 42 % 58 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#ferguson 25783
#blackfish 10781
#nerdland 6006
#mikebrown 5576
#tcot 5161
#mtp 2961
#lnyhbt 2610
#staywoke 2300
#seaworld 1804
#uppers 1802

Tag Cloud across all shows

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Word Cloud across all shows

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