Well, I’m not sure what people were talking about yesterday, but I know what show they were talking about:
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Fox News’ Cashin’ In, which uses the hashtag #WakeUpAmerica, was not only the top rated show in Cable News Twitter, but the top topic in Cable News Twitter as well.
Raw data: 2015-02-14-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-14-WordStats.csv
Obama was the top topic in Cable News Twitter on Friday, but not quite the dominating topic:
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Raw data for the day: 2015-02-13-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-13-WordStats.csv
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
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
The Grammys, with Obama and Kanye and all, managed to top the discussion on Cable News Twitter on Monday:
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Raw data: 2015-02-09-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-09-WordStats.csv