Thanks to The Colbert Report’s coverage of “Gamergate”, the topic dominated Cable News Twitter yesterday. Following that was Tim Cook’s announcement that he’s gay.
Here’s the top 30 words and hashtags for the day:
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You can also download the raw data for the top 100 words and tags for the day: 2014-10-30-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-30-WordStats.csv
The Ed Show had the best hour on Cable News Twitter Thursday, while continuing talk about Stephen Colbert and “#GamerGate” pushed Colbert’s daily mentions high enough to give him the day overall.
Following The Ed Show was The Kelly File, Hannity, Morning Joe, Chris Hayes, and Rachel Maddow:
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You can download all the data for the day here: 2014-10-30-ShowStats.csv
Joseph Randle managed to top the topics in Cable News Twitter yesterday, followed by discussions about the Colbert Report, ebola, and voting:
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Raw data for the day: 2014-10-29-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-29-WordStats.csv
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 3362 | Comedy Central: The Colbert Report (11:30-12am) |
| Most Mentions During Day | 12689 | Comedy Central: The Colbert Report (11:30-12am) |
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| Fox News | 52997 | 25680 | 321315915 | 61 % | 39 % |
| CNN | 49461 | 36901 | 624256879 | 60 % | 40 % |
| MSNBC | 35528 | 13517 | 193060008 | 52 % | 48 % |
| Comedy Central | 15608 | 10212 | 44411147 | 68 % | 32 % |
| HBO | 4293 | 3296 | 24821139 | 58 % | 42 % |
| Al Jazeera | 2588 | 1853 | 10611711 | 56 % | 44 % |
| HLN | 2137 | 1307 | 9860400 | 33 % | 67 % |
| ABC | 443 | 307 | 10801853 | 48 % | 52 % |
| CBS | 282 | 213 | 644230 | 48 % | 52 % |
| Hashtag | Count |
| #newday | 5402 |
| #tcot | 4400 |
| #ebola | 3672 |
| #gamergate | 3211 |
| #lakers | 3107 |
| #kellyfile | 2808 |
| #lnyhbt | 2637 |
| #morningjoe | 2461 |
| #blackfish | 2293 |
| #inners | 2161 |
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Gamergate came to the Colbert Report, giving it the best hour and day on Cable News Twitter. The Kelly File, Hannity, Morning Joe, and Chris Hayes followed (in that order):
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In somewhat related news, MSNBC has been holding daily Twitter chats with its hosts on the subject of the election. So far, 3 have been done (at the time of this writing). Melissa Harris-Perry’s was by and far the most popular:
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Looks like Matthews and Díaz-Balart have been schooled by the Professor!
Raw data for the daily shows: 2014-10-29-ShowStats.csv
The failed rocket launch in Virginia ruled Cable News Twitter on Tuesday, lifting off from the rest of the other topics:
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That one really tall bar on the left? Justin Bieber’s selfie that used the hashtag #newday, making it hard to tell apart from CNN’s New Day show tweets…
Raw data files: 2014-10-28-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-28-WordStats.csv
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 1962 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 25445 | CNN: New Day |
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| CNN | 75368 | 60025 | 751482239 | 54 % | 46 % |
| Fox News | 47427 | 24108 | 278101069 | 62 % | 38 % |
| MSNBC | 33215 | 13664 | 199531049 | 54 % | 46 % |
| HBO | 6463 | 4975 | 17400011 | 57 % | 43 % |
| Comedy Central | 6366 | 5204 | 19208236 | 54 % | 46 % |
| HLN | 3680 | 1741 | 19690621 | 29 % | 71 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1671 | 1273 | 7088004 | 55 % | 45 % |
| CBS | 558 | 444 | 10209299 | 53 % | 47 % |
| ABC | 300 | 225 | 10657318 | 47 % | 53 % |
| Hashtag | Count |
| #newday | 24316 |
| #ebola | 4693 |
| #tcot | 4565 |
| #antares | 3457 |
| #lnyhbt | 3079 |
| #blackfish | 2458 |
| #showusyourpeanuts | 2396 |
| #nasa | 2362 |
| #kellyfile | 2286 |
| #morningjoe | 2242 |
| #2a #5things #ac360 #antares #betterwithfriends #biafrans #blackfish #breaking #breakingnews #c2gthr #cashinin #ccot #climatechange #cnn #copolitics #dailyshow #ebola #edshow #emabiggestfansjustinbieber #emptythetanks #ferguson #firecarolcostello #foxnews #gamegate #gamergate #gop #greta #halloween #hannity #hardball #hbo #inners #iran #isis #jodiarias #johnoliver #kellyfile #kitterman #kysen #lastweektonight #lastword #lnyhbt #maddow #manupbabi #marvel #morningjoe #mostrecent #msnbc #msnbcvote #nasa #nerdland #newday #news #norobang #nra #nyc #obama #obamacare #oreillyfactor #outfront #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #pleasert #raisethewage #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #riposcartaveras #seaworld #seoulbrothers #sgp #showusyourpeanuts #socialmediaorg #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teamwendy #teaparty #tgdn #thecove #thefive #tlot #tntweeters #tpot #tpp #truth #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #uniteblue #uniteright #uppers #usa #vote #waronwomen #washingtonredskins #wiunion #worldseries #yeswedid |
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