Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-03-19
Here’s what people were talking about on Cable News Twitter yesterday:
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I was curious how #WakeUpAmerica did so well yesterday (it’s been doing well every day, so I finally got around to looking into it). It was driven partially by one tweet that got retweeted heavily:
#WakeUpAmerica war, children,it’s just a shot away! @oreillyfactor love sister it’s just a kiss away @ericbolling @jan_pierce @jjauthor
— DR JAMES CABOT (@DRJAMESCABOT) March 19, 2015
Because that go retweeted nearly 5000 times, it drove mentions of #WakeUpAmerica, The O’Reilly Factor, and Eric Bolling (who is part of The Five) up higher than would otherwise have happened.
You may ask if it’s reasonable to count retweets or not — I think it is fair, since the people retweeting are indicating that they think the original message is worthy of wider distribution. But I do agree that sometimes the effects are disproportionate. That’s why, fundamentally, Twitter ratings are an interesting, but not always insightful, metric.
Raw data for the day: 2015-03-19-TagStats.csv and 2015-03-19-WordStats.csv
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 4303 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 13671 | Fox News: Hannity |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| Fox News | 79816 | 32531 | 413094786 | 61 % | 39 % |
| CNN | 56683 | 37136 | 917846908 | 57 % | 43 % |
| MSNBC | 32362 | 15288 | 149945181 | 55 % | 45 % |
| Comedy Central | 4251 | 3366 | 25694207 | 64 % | 36 % |
| HLN | 3141 | 2528 | 15249705 | 38 % | 62 % |
| HBO | 2000 | 1623 | 7950073 | 67 % | 33 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1513 | 1099 | 6387831 | 54 % | 46 % |
Most popular hashtags and words
| Word or Hashtag | Count |
| #wakeupamerica | 17438 |
| just | 15001 |
| obama | 13782 |
| away | 10805 |
| people | 8291 |
| #tcot | 7825 |
| now | 7542 |
| love | 7110 |
| one | 7063 |
| white | 6772 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #1a #2a #aa #ac360 #amberalert #aurora #aviation #bibi #blockupy #breaking #ccot #coffee #cosproject #court #dailyshow #dictatormerkel #direnfrankfurt #disclosure #dot #edshow #equinox #europe #faa #ferguson #fns #foxnews #fragglerock #ftn #gitmo #godblessamerica #gop #gophatespoorpeople #gopwantswar #hannity #hardball #hims #icc4israel #inners #insideman #iran #irantalks #isis #israel #israelelections #istandwithbibi #istandwithisrael #kelly #kellyfile #lastword #lemurs #lnyhbt #madagascar #maddow #makedclisten #marchmadness #martesejohnson #morningjoe #msnbc #mtp #netanyahu #newday #news #nightlyshow #obama #obamadestroyingamerica #occupyfrankfurt #oreillyfactor #otisbyrd #outnumbered #p2 #patriots #pilots #pjnet #politicalpanel #racetogether #redeye #rednationrising #rt #sisterpatriots #sitroom #socialmedia #solareclipse #sot #specialreport #starbucks #supermoon #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thefive #thelead #tlot #tntweeters #tunisia #uniteblue #uva #wakeupamerica #ycot |
Word Cloud across all shows
| african agree america american answer austin away back bibi black bloodied businesses children cnn co day death done election end et found go good gop great hanging head hearings hold house interview iran israel israeli johnson just killed kiss know like love make man mandatory martese may mayor missing mississippi need netanyahu new news now obama one only’ outraged people please pm police posted pres president race reality right say says secrecy see shot show sister state stickers still stop student take think time tonight tree truth ufo unbowed us uva vote voting want war watch way white will world |