It’s Saturday, so you know who won Cable News Twitter: Fox News’ Cashin’ In with Eric Bolling. What’s more, it received more mentions than the next 5 shows combined — more than the four hours of MSNBC’s Up with Steve Kornacki and Melissa Harris-Perry show together:
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Raw data: 2014-10-18-ShowStats.csv
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.
A rare win for Morning Joe, which captured both the best hour and best day overall on Cable News Twitter. In fact, it was a such a rare day that MSNBC won the top 6 best hour slots:
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Raw data for the day: 2014-10-17-ShowStats.csv
Ebola was, of course, the top topic in Cable News Twitter for Thursday, but what’s breath-taking is how dominant of a topic it’s become:
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The Kelly file won the best hour while Hannity won best day, overall, on Thursday October 16, 2014. Following Kelly for best hour were Hannity, Hayes, Morning Joe, and The Ed Show. Kelly’s win was not as strong as her recent wins, however, suggesting that there are no new hot topics for her and her fans to get excited about.
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Raw data here: 2014-10-16-ShowStats.csv