Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-01-02
Update 3/28/16:
I’m not sure why people keep tweeting links to this old article, but, really, there’s nothing worthwhile here other than a historical analysis of what people were talking about on cable news over a year ago. There is far more recent, and relevant, coverage of what’s happening at Seaworld elsewhere.
CNN’s perennial favorite documentary Blackfish, which was not shown, managed to pick up a huge amount of mentions on Cable News Twitter nonetheless as the topic has a life of its own, with over 40,000 mentions of #Blackfish. Mentions of Iran were in a distant second.
Since Blackfish is not currently being shown on CNN, I’ll kill the counts of it in subsequent analyses (unless/until CNN reruns it).
Raw Data: 2015-01-02-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-02-WordStats.csv
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 994 | Fox News: The Five w/Hosts |
| Most Mentions During Day | 4839 | MSNBC: MSNBC Live |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| CNN | 72093 | 17857 | 378743319 | 27 % | 73 % |
| Fox News | 41288 | 19587 | 158030007 | 62 % | 38 % |
| MSNBC | 11543 | 6155 | 60422767 | 58 % | 42 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1405 | 1054 | 9893843 | 50 % | 50 % |
| HBO | 1109 | 826 | 3310767 | 66 % | 34 % |
| HLN | 848 | 728 | 8380683 | 62 % | 38 % |
| Comedy Central | 217 | 190 | 600102 | 46 % | 54 % |
| CBS | 203 | 181 | 1831853 | 53 % | 47 % |
| ABC | 142 | 130 | 4059155 | 60 % | 40 % |
Most popular hashtags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #blackfish | 43847 |
| #tweet4tilikum | 40984 |
| #seaworld | 22359 |
| #emptythetanks | 20386 |
| #iran | 6020 |
| #lolita | 3452 |
| #irantalks | 3000 |
| #disclosure | 2983 |
| #tcot | 2743 |
| #tilikum | 2411 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #1 #1a #2a #aaa #ab2140 #airasia #americanexpress #backtothefuture #blackfish #blacklivesmatter #breaking #campliberty #captivitykills #cashinin #ccot #cdcwhistleblower #citypass #cnn #cnnnye #cocacola #corky #cruelty #disclosure #dolphins #dontbuyaticket #edshow #emptythetanks #ff #follow #foxnews #foxnews2015 #freecorky #freekiska- #freelolita #fullrepeal #gop #gruber #hannity #happyandhealthy #harleydavidson #hulu #humanrights #inners #iran #irantalks #iraq #isis #kellyfile #keto #kiska #kyuquot #lifeitself #lnyhbt #lolita #maddow #mariocuomo #mattel #miamidolphins #morgan #morningjoe #msnbc #newday #news #newyear #newyearsresolution #nickelodeon #nyc #nypd #obama #obamacare #opkillingbay #orcas #orkid #outnumbered #overit2014 #p2 #pjnet #prolife #qz8501 #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #seaworld #seaworldpic #sony #sot #sugarbowl #tcot #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thecove #thefive #tilikum #tlot #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #tweet4tilikum #tweet4tilkum #uniteblue |
Word Cloud across all shows
| 2014 2015 back bassett bill breaking bring captive captivity change co come congressional cuomo day de dead death demand denial employees end et evidence factory family free good great happy hearing help home ht join just killed killer know korea life like live longer make man marine mario may need never new news now obama old one option orca oregon people please police protest re release retweet right sanctions say says seaworld see show shows speak st state steve still stop support things think tilikum time today two ufo us watch whale whales wild will workers world year years yet |