Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-09-30
With the announcement of the Texas patient who tested positive for Ebola, Cable News Twitter naturally was consumed by discussion of the news:
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This pushed all other topics to the margin, including the ever popular ISIS…
Also interesting to note: Since Ebola is (mostly) non-political, the breaking news lifted CNN to the top network and put The Situation Room into the top 5 of Cable News shows on Twitter.
CSV data for the day: 2014-09-30-WordStats.csv 2014-09-30-TagStats.csv
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 3664 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 8178 | Fox News: Hannity |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| CNN | 66927 | 50838 | 452274363 | 52 % | 48 % |
| Fox News | 47898 | 23241 | 268800118 | 61 % | 39 % |
| MSNBC | 31658 | 13507 | 192724482 | 49 % | 51 % |
| Comedy Central | 4565 | 3571 | 17422453 | 57 % | 43 % |
| HBO | 3150 | 2583 | 9534684 | 64 % | 36 % |
| Al Jazeera | 2392 | 1720 | 6356603 | 60 % | 40 % |
| HLN | 2172 | 1396 | 7769127 | 35 % | 65 % |
| CBS | 688 | 567 | 11190280 | 48 % | 52 % |
| ABC | 152 | 141 | 4446090 | 48 % | 52 % |
Most popular hastags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #ebola | 26945 |
| #breaking | 20381 |
| #isis | 3931 |
| #tcot | 3583 |
| #kellyfile | 3360 |
| #blackfish | 2950 |
| #lnyhbt | 2374 |
| #morningjoe | 1681 |
| #maddow | 1579 |
| #ferguson | 1551 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #1 #2a #5things #ac360 #baghdad #benghazi #blackfish #breaking #bringbackourmarine #buriedi #c2gthr #cancer #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #cdc #chicagoland #cnn #dailyshow #ebola #edshow #emmy #emptythetanks #ferguson #findhaleigh #foodscraps #foxnews #g #genderequality #globalcitizenfestival #gop #hannity #hardball #heforshe #hkdemocracy #hongkong #i #inners #iran #iraq #isis #isisattackskobane #itdiedtoozune #jailedmarine #judicialgrinds #kellyfile #lastweektonight #lastword #lnyhbt #maddow #marineheldinmexico #moore #morningjoe #msnbc #nationalcoffeeday #newday #news #newsemmys #nyc #obama #occupycentral #occupyhongkong #oklahoma #opkillingbay #oreillyfactor #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #ptsdhearing #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #ripzune #savereyhanehjabbari #seattle #seaworld #secretservice #syria #taiji #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thecove #thefive #thelead #tiot #tlot #tpp #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #uniteblue #us #usa #vet #whitehouse #wiunion #zunewehardlyknewye |
Word Cloud across all shows
| 1st 30 40 again america arrested back beheading breaking case cdc charge china co coming conference confirmed confirms control dallas day details diagnosed director dui ebola fence first fox gets go going good great half hong house isis just know like live lol lost love man many michael much need never new news nfl now obama old one patient people phelps please pm president press protesters really report right said say says secret security see service show spread still stop symptoms take thanks things think time today tonight troops us virus want warns watch well white wildlife will world years |