Ferguson Continues As Top Topic in Cable News Twitter for Thursday, August 21, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-21

Ferguson is hanging in there at the top trending topic in Cable News.  I suspect the media will pull back its on-site presence this weekend, which may well de-escalate Twitter as well.  We’ll see.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 4709 MSNBC: The Last Word w/Lawrence O’Donnell
Most Mentions During Day 16171 CNN: CNN Tonight w/ Hosts

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 76200 46964 558560678 55 % 45 %
Fox News 60170 29763 287871165 61 % 39 %
MSNBC 45697 18401 158764442 52 % 48 %
Al Jazeera 2721 1980 6814615 50 % 50 %
HLN 2686 1434 5405329 34 % 66 %
HBO 1811 1264 5976678 61 % 39 %
Comedy Central 1181 1022 4219735 57 % 43 %
ABC 140 104 2508022 63 % 38 %
CBS 118 97 379627 80 % 20 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#ferguson 22919
#tcot 4356
#isis 3959
#kellyfile 3616
#blackfish 3394
#ebola 3071
#michaelbrown 3035
#lnyhbt 2665
#pjnet 1890
#tgdn 1854

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #alsicebucketchallenge #babysitter #backtoschool #bashir #bergdahl #blackfish #breaking #c2gthr #ccot #cheney #cnn #conservatives #darrenwilson #dembringinmomurda #ebola #edshow #emptythetanks #fe #ferguson #fergusonshooting #flipadistrict #foxnews #gaza #gazaunderattack #gop #hamas #handsupdontshoot #hannity #hardball #holder #inners #iran #iraq #isil #isis #israel #jamesfoley #justiceformikebrown #k #kajiemepowell #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #liberals #listenandlearn #lnyhbt #maddow #michaelbrown #mikebrown #morningjoe #msnbc #newday #news #no2rouhani #nra #nyc #obama #oreillyfactor #outfront #outnumbered #p2 #pentagon #pjnet #premiostumundo #racism #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #ronjohnson #rouhani #seaworld #stlouis #syria #takeoffjustlogo #talibkweli #tbt #tcot #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thefive #thelead #tlot #tntweeters #trayvonmar #trayvonmartin #triedtotellyou #truth #tweet4taiji #twisters #un #uniteblue #uppers #usa #vets #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

acid american americans attacks back black brantly breaking brown cnn confused cop cops darren day dear details discharged done dr ebola even eye feel ferguson five foley forget go going good great heard help hospital incident interview isis james just kent kill know law like live lives look man media michael might millions miraculous must need new news now obama officer one patients people picture please police president report reporting right said saved say says see shooting shot show shows socket still stop stories story survivors take team think thought time today us video want watch white will wilson witness