Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-02-01
Everyone was talking about the Super Bowl on Sunday….although a lot about the half-time show and Missy Elliot.
Raw data: 2015-02-01-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-01-WordStats.csv
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Melissa Harris-Perry wins a quiet Super Bowl Sunday on Cable News Twitter
Sunday was an unusually quiet day in Cable News Twitter, with The Melissa Harris-Perry show winning best hour with less than 1000 mentions in each of its two hours. Fox News’ Red Eye racked up an impressive 8K of mentions during the day, although most of those were retweets of Red Eye’s hosts’ comments during the Super Bowl and not exactly Red Eye related.
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Raw Data: 2015-02-01-ShowStats.csv
Saturday’s Cable News Twitter: #CashinIn and @realDonaldTrump (1/31/15)
Saturday’s conversation on Cable News Twitter was still somewhat all over the board, with no topic jumping out as dominant. Fox News’ show Cashin’ In got its hashtag into first place, but that’s more about what show people were watching and less about what they were discussing. Here’s the top 30 words and hashtags used:
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Here’s the most popular Cable News tweet from Saturday (based on retweets):
I hope you can go to @oreillyfactor and vote for Donald Trump in order to Make America Great Again! Thanks.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2015
Raw data for the day: 2015-01-31-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-31-WordStats.csv
Cashin’ In takes another Saturday, 1/31/15
It’s no surprise that Fox News’ Cashin’ In had another strong Saturday, with over 5,000 mentions during the 11am hour and over 15,000 mentions throughout the day. Cashin’ In had a reach of 129,914,290, which means that tweets mentioning the show appeared on people’s timelines ~130 million times yesterday. (That is not to say people saw or read them, to be clear, just that they scrolled by).
Following Cashin’ In for best hour were both hours of Melissa Harris-Perry, Judge Jeanine, and both hours of Up with Steve. Cashin’ In had more mentions, during its slot, than these next-best shows did during their slots.
Here’s the top 30 shows:
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Raw data: 2015-01-31-ShowStats.csv