Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-02-16
Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver’s weekend comedy/news show on HBO, did an extended report on big tobacco’s attempts to roll back anti-smoking laws outside of the USA. At the end of the report, Oliver suggested a new mascot for Marlboro: Jeff the diseased lung in a cowboy outfit. Along with the new mascot, Oliver introduced a new hashtag, #JefWeCan. Monday the tag went viral:
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ISIS only managed to get a third of Jeff’s traffic on Twitter…
Raw data: 2015-02-16-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-16-WordStats.csv
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 3887 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 29818 | HBO: Last Week Tonight |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| Fox News | 70861 | 32081 | 482046618 | 60 % | 40 % |
| CNN | 45719 | 26226 | 1001573754 | 56 % | 44 % |
| HBO | 30938 | 23014 | 55664320 | 67 % | 33 % |
| MSNBC | 23728 | 10551 | 115838121 | 54 % | 46 % |
| HLN | 1870 | 1262 | 19837871 | 42 % | 58 % |
| Comedy Central | 1780 | 1530 | 13850376 | 58 % | 42 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1390 | 1054 | 5125945 | 51 % | 49 % |
Most popular hashtags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #jeffwecan | 29856 |
| #isis | 8377 |
| #marlboro | 7220 |
| #tcot | 7006 |
| #iran | 5026 |
| #irantalks | 4525 |
| #wakeupamerica | 4398 |
| #lnyhbt | 3755 |
| #kellyfile | 3057 |
| #disclosure | 2949 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #2a #5things #america #amnesty #apprenticefinale #askapprentice #aworldwidejoke #bangladesh #bigtobacco #botl #campliberty #ccot #celebapprentice #celebrityapprentice #chapelhillshooting #cnn #cnnquiz #cnnquizshow #competitions #cuba #dhs #disclosure #edshow #egypt #facebook #fnpolitics #foxnews #giveaway #gop #hannity #hardball #humanrights #humantrafficking #iloveobama #inners #iran #irantalks #isis #islam #istandwithisrael #jeffwecan #jeffwedid #johnoliver #jpolyboycott #kell #kelly #kellyfile #lastweektonight #libya #lifeitself #lnyhbt #maddow #marlboro #morningjoe #msnbc #newday #news #notoriousrbg #nra #nuclearbomb #nutella #obama #obamacare #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #politicalpanel #presidentsday #radicalislam #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #rttowin #sisterpatriots #smokingkills #snl40 #standwithisrael #tcot #teamchrisdon #teamedshow #teamjakeali #teaparty #tech-news #tgdn #thefive #thelead #tlot #tntweeters #tpot #uk #ukraine #un #uniteblue #uniteright #us #vaccinations #wakeupamerica #westvirginia #win |
Word Cloud across all shows
| 21 again against agree american back beheaded beheading beheadings big breaking call christian christians cnn co day diseased egypt egyptian et face fight full getting go going good great help house interview isis islamic jeff john jordan just know last latest libya like look love lung make mass massive matson must need never new news night now obama oliver one page people petition piece please president put re really right say says see show still stop story take think time tobacco tonight train trend trending tv tweet ufo us victims video want war watch wh white will world worldwide yes |