Monthly Archives: February 2015

Chapel Hill Shootings continue to Dominate Cable News Twitter on 2/12/15, and RIP David Carr

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-02-12

The Chapel Hill shootings continued to dominate the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Thursday.  I thought perhaps that the passing of the NY Times’ David Carr would have gotten higher in the discussion, but since it was not being discussed in the context of Cable News shows, my filters missed a lot of the conversation.

Still, I estimate that there were roughly 70K tweets that mentioned him yesterday, which made him a huge topic of conversation (just not in relation to Cable News shows).

Here’s the top 30 items from the day:

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And the raw data: 2015-02-12-WordStats.csv and 2015-02-12-TagStats.csv

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Kelly, Hannity top the day in Cable News Twitter for Thursday, February 12, 2015

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The Kelly File won best hour on Cable News Twitter Thursday while Hannity had the best day over all.  This suggests the discussion over Jon Stewart’s not-so-imminent departure from The Daily Show is starting to die down.

Following Kelly for best hour were On The Record w/Greta Van Susteren, Hannity, The Five w/Hosts, and Morning Joe:

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You can see from the chart that Kelly had a nearly 2:1 lead on the number 2 show, On The Record.

Raw Data: 2015-02-12-ShowStats.csv

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Chapel Hill Shootings Dominate Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, February 11, 2015

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-02-11

The shootings in Chapel Hill completely dominated the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, with ongoing conversation about Jon Stewart’s retirement coming in a distant second:

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Raw data: 2015-02-11-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-11-WordStats.csv

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Kelly, Stewart win Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, February 11, 2015

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For a guy who said he’s going to do something maybe 8 months from now (or maybe not), Jon Stewart sure holds the the attention of Twitter, getting over 37K mentions yesterday. Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly managed to rack up almost 5K mentions during her broadcast hour. Kelly was followed by the 1 am rerun of The Daily Show, Hannity, the 9 am rerun of The Daily Show, and The Rachel Maddow Show:

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Raw data for the day: 2015-02-11-ShowStats.csv

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Jon Stewart top topic in Cable News Twitter Tuesday, 2/10/15, and an astroturfed #JohnYouAreInvited campaign

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-02-10

No doubt, the announced retirement of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show managed to dominate the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Tuesday.  Snuck into the middle of that was the hashtag #johnyouareinvited, which started out to be a plea to John Oliver and Last Week Tonight to say nice things about Ecuador, as far as I can tell. But then the hashtag was jumped on by critics of Ecuador and turned into a minor (astro-) turf battle between the pro and con.

Here’s the top 30 words and tags for the day:

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Raw Data: 2015-02-10-WordStats.csv and 2015-02-10-TagStats.csv

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