Ebola, Ebola Czar, and Travel Bans dominate Cable News Twitter on Friday, October 17, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-17

Friday was again no surprise: talk of ebola dominated cable news Twitter.  When we look further down into the trending topics, we can see that the new Ebola Czar was probably the most discussed specific ebola topic, while discussion of a travel ban was a bit further down the rankings:

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Also interesting (well, barely) is that the use of #ebola (with the hash sign) is just ahead of unadorned, hash-less ebola, which indicates that that conversation about ebola is very meta-data aware.

Raw data: 2014-10-17-TagStats.csv 2014-10-17-WordStats.csv

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2020 MSNBC: Morning Joe
Most Mentions During Day 7121 MSNBC: Morning Joe

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
Fox News 48698 22522 261715041 60 % 40 %
CNN 42327 25598 445842479 58 % 42 %
MSNBC 32631 12790 182185925 51 % 49 %
Comedy Central 6872 6136 39282881 60 % 40 %
HBO 3426 2289 10040555 60 % 40 %
Al Jazeera 1450 1103 3887530 60 % 40 %
HLN 1280 936 3448623 39 % 61 %
ABC 292 244 21299400 46 % 54 %
CBS 279 219 4845043 54 % 46 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#ebola 13958
#tcot 3941
#lnyhbt 2808
#morningjoe 2525
#business 2435
#entrepreneurship 2429
#web 2428
#filmmaker 2427
#success 2426
#maddow 2294

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #ambervinson #americanpayday #blackfish #breaking #business #c2gthr #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #cdc #cnn #cnnroots #dailyshow #dallas #ebola #ebolaczar #ebolaoutbreak #edshow #election2014 #emptythetanks #entrepreneurship #fangate #ferguson #ff #filmmaker #foxnews #gamergate #gop #gregorianmanifesto #hannity #hardball #hongkong #inners #iran #iraq #isis #kellyfile #lastweektonight #libcrib #lnyhbt #londonunderground #maddow #marsoneproject #morn #morningjoe #msnbc #mtp #newday #news #ninapham #notyourshield #nra #nyc #obama #oscarpistorius #otr #outnumbered #p2 #partsunknown #pjnet #randpaul #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #republicans #ronklain #roots #seaworld #stephenathome #success #syria #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #teens #texas #tgdn #tgif #thecycle #thefive #thelead #tlot #tntweeters #truth #tweet4taiji #uniteblue #vote #voteblue #votingmatters #watchhungerstop #web #wfd2014 #whydidweputitonhisperso #wiunion #yasinbörü

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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