The trending topics in Cable News on Thursday were Obama, ISIS, and a little bit of Rudy:
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Raw data: 2015-02-19-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-19-WordStats.csv
Obama and ISIS were the top topics in Cable News Twitter on Wednesday:
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Raw data: 2015-02-18-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-18-WordStats.csv
ISIS beat out HBO’s Last Week Tonight’s #JeffWeCan hashtag to be the top trending topic in Cable News Twitter on Tuesday, although the show itself had the most tweets throughout the day.
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If you combine #ISIS and the use of the word ISIS (without the #), then it had a clear and dominating lead over all other topics.
Raw data: 2015-02-17-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-17-WordStats.csv
Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver’s weekend comedy/news show on HBO, did an extended report on big tobacco’s attempts to roll back anti-smoking laws outside of the USA. At the end of the report, Oliver suggested a new mascot for Marlboro: Jeff the diseased lung in a cowboy outfit. Along with the new mascot, Oliver introduced a new hashtag, #JefWeCan. Monday the tag went viral:
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ISIS only managed to get a third of Jeff’s traffic on Twitter…
Raw data: 2015-02-16-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-16-WordStats.csv
Conservative hashtags ruled the day on Cable News Twitter, with #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), #WakeUpAmerica (Used by the Fox News show Cashin’ In), and #LNYHBT (used by Sean Hannity) taking the top 3 spots. After those, Obama and ISIS rounded out the top 5:
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Raw Data: 2015-02-15-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-15-WordStats.csv