The death of ESPN sportscaster Scott Stuart dominated Cable News Twitter conversations on Sunday, followed by Iran and the Roger Ebert documentary “Life Itself”:
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As a side note, as CNN is not showing the Blackfish documentary (and has not shown it for a while), I am not tracking its mentions anymore — at least until CNN decides to show it again.
Raw data for the day: 2015-01-04-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-04-WordStats.csv
It’s a shame CNN doesn’t do a sequel to Blackfish, because people sure keep talking about it:
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Raw Data: 2015-01-03-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-03-WordStats.csv
Update 3/28/16:
I’m not sure why people keep tweeting links to this old article, but, really, there’s nothing worthwhile here other than a historical analysis of what people were talking about on cable news over a year ago. There is far more recent, and relevant, coverage of what’s happening at Seaworld elsewhere.
CNN’s perennial favorite documentary Blackfish, which was not shown, managed to pick up a huge amount of mentions on Cable News Twitter nonetheless as the topic has a life of its own, with over 40,000 mentions of #Blackfish. Mentions of Iran were in a distant second.
Since Blackfish is not currently being shown on CNN, I’ll kill the counts of it in subsequent analyses (unless/until CNN reruns it).
Raw Data: 2015-01-02-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-02-WordStats.csv
The start of the new year continued to dominate Cable News Twitter on New Year’s Day.
Raw Data: 2015-01-01-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-01-WordStats.csv
On New Year’s Eve, everyone on Cable News Twitter was talking about … New Year’s Eve.
The top 3 words were New, Year, and Happy (in that order), and the top 3 hashtags were: #cnnnye, #foxnews2015, and #overit2014 (in that order).
Raw data: 2014-12-31-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-31-WordStats.csv