CNN dominated Cable News Twitter on Monday night, driven by the strength of its coverage of unfolding events in Missouri:

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Normally, I rank shows more than networks, but in this case each network was providing continuing coverage of events throughout the evening, rotating through a variety of its personalities.  This makes the by network, by hour chart the most relevant for the evening’s Cable News Twitter statistics.

The attention CNN gained on Twitter benefited two shows, CNN Tonight and AC 360, whose normal hosts were providing live coverage of events.  It was a sharp drop to number 3, Hannity.  Because of the upended schedules, you should not put too much faith in the following chart for the evening shows, but here’s the top 30:

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Here’s the raw data for the day: 2014-11-24-ShowStats.csv and 2014-11-24 ByNetwork.xlsx

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A good day for The Melissa Harris-Perry Show, as she took first and second place in the Cable News Twitter ratings.  She was followed by MSNBC’s airing of Meet The Press, both hours of Up with Steve Kornacki, and CNN’s “Black in America”:

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You can get the complete data for the day here: 2014-11-23-ShowStats.csv

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