Here’s what people were talking about yesterday:
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Once again, #WakeUpAmerica was the top word or hashtag in the list. Unlike Thursday, Friday’s traffic was driven by a lot of tweets that got retweeted heavily:
Most popular retweets with #WakeUpAmerica
That’s how you win Twitter, folks.
Raw Data: 2015-03-20-TagStats.csv and 2015-03-20-WordStats.csv
A double win for Hannity on Friday, as he takes Best Day and Best Hour on Cable News Twitter, although not with a particularly strong showing. What’s more interesting, I think, is that three of the top five shows were MSNBC shows. MSNBC hasn’t generated a lot of chatter lately (at least not good chatter), but perhaps this reflects a change in the audience’s engagement with MSNBC shows? Or perhaps not…
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Raw data: 2015-03-20-ShowStats.csv
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
Another Kelly / Hannity day on Thursday, with Kelly taking best hour and Hannity taking best day overall. Following Kelly for best hour were Hannity, The Five (when you include the hosts’ personal Twitter accounts), The Ed Show, and Anderson Cooper:
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Raw data: 2015-03-19-ShowStats.csv
Apart from the normal top trenders — Obama, #tcot and, as of late, #WakeUpAmerica — Netanyahu and the Israeli election results topped the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Wednesday:
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Raw data: 2015-03-18-TagStats.csv and 2015-03-18-WordStats.csv