Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-17
Friday was again no surprise: talk of ebola dominated cable news Twitter. When we look further down into the trending topics, we can see that the new Ebola Czar was probably the most discussed specific ebola topic, while discussion of a travel ban was a bit further down the rankings:
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Also interesting (well, barely) is that the use of #ebola (with the hash sign) is just ahead of unadorned, hash-less ebola, which indicates that that conversation about ebola is very meta-data aware.
Raw data: 2014-10-17-TagStats.csv 2014-10-17-WordStats.csv
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2020 | MSNBC: Morning Joe |
| Most Mentions During Day | 7121 | MSNBC: Morning Joe |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| Fox News | 48698 | 22522 | 261715041 | 60 % | 40 % |
| CNN | 42327 | 25598 | 445842479 | 58 % | 42 % |
| MSNBC | 32631 | 12790 | 182185925 | 51 % | 49 % |
| Comedy Central | 6872 | 6136 | 39282881 | 60 % | 40 % |
| HBO | 3426 | 2289 | 10040555 | 60 % | 40 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1450 | 1103 | 3887530 | 60 % | 40 % |
| HLN | 1280 | 936 | 3448623 | 39 % | 61 % |
| ABC | 292 | 244 | 21299400 | 46 % | 54 % |
| CBS | 279 | 219 | 4845043 | 54 % | 46 % |
Most popular hastags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #ebola | 13958 |
| #tcot | 3941 |
| #lnyhbt | 2808 |
| #morningjoe | 2525 |
| #business | 2435 |
| #entrepreneurship | 2429 |
| #web | 2428 |
| #filmmaker | 2427 |
| #success | 2426 |
| #maddow | 2294 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #2a #5things #ac360 #ambervinson #americanpayday #blackfish #breaking #business #c2gthr #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #cdc #cnn #cnnroots #dailyshow #dallas #ebola #ebolaczar #ebolaoutbreak #edshow #election2014 #emptythetanks #entrepreneurship #fangate #ferguson #ff #filmmaker #foxnews #gamergate #gop #gregorianmanifesto #hannity #hardball #hongkong #inners #iran #iraq #isis #kellyfile #lastweektonight #libcrib #lnyhbt #londonunderground #maddow #marsoneproject #morn #morningjoe #msnbc #mtp #newday #news #ninapham #notyourshield #nra #nyc #obama #oscarpistorius #otr #outnumbered #p2 #partsunknown #pjnet #randpaul #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #republicans #ronklain #roots #seaworld #stephenathome #success #syria #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #teens #texas #tgdn #tgif #thecycle #thefive #thelead #tlot #tntweeters #truth #tweet4taiji #uniteblue #vote #voteblue #votingmatters #watchhungerstop #web #wfd2014 #whydidweputitonhisperso #wiunion #yasinbörü |
Word Cloud across all shows
| 10 americans another back bad ban biden’s breaking cdc cnn cocaine cruise czar dallas day declined discharged done ebola fan first forever go good gop great health help hi hospital house ht isis just klain know last like live make man mars may me’ much name navy need never new news now nurse obama obama’s one outbreak people please political positive president producing quarantined questions really report right ron say says see series ship should’ve show size son stay still stop stupid super testing think time today tonight travel us want war watch well wh white will worker world yes |