Melissa Harris-Perry and Sean Hannity win Cable News Twitter on Saturday, August 2, 2014

MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show had the strongest hour while Sean Hannity had the best day in total.

Welcome “The Hunt”

With Saturday’s report, I have begun tracking CNN’s “The Hunt with John Walsh”.  It was somewhat difficult as there is no official show Twitter account or hashtag; however, the informal hashtag #TheHunt seems to have gained sufficient currency that I can use it as well as looking for all tweets which include “CNN” and “The Hunt” in the text.

It continues to amaze me that networks do not establish show accounts and hashtags for social media accounts.  It makes it easier for their communities to find each other, and it makes it easier to run analytics to track the conversation…

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Cable News Aggregate Data for July, 2014

If you are interested in stats for Cable News shows, the following CSV files contain mention counts for each of the news shows on the major networks.

First, the counts by Network, Show, Date, and Hour.  Not all hours are present for all shows: tweetsByNetShowHour201407

Next, the counts by Network, Show, and Date.  This is just an aggregation of the above data: tweetsByShowDay201407

Finally, just the counts by Network and Show: tweetsByShow201407

Let me know if you do anything fun with these!

Ebola and Gaza are the Top Trending Topics in Cable News for August 1, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-08-01

Gaza and Ebola managed to dominate the Cable News Twitter conversation on Friday, August 1, 2014.  In terms of words used, Hamas and Israel were used more often than Gaza, which tends to make me think the conversation was more about the politics than the on the ground events.

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