The murder of two NY Police officers Saturday dominated the conversation on Cable News Twitter:
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In the mix were conversations about who to blame besides the killer (“mayor”, “sharpton”) and Stephen Colbert’s final show.
Raw data for the day: 2014-12-20-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-20-WordStats.csv
Colbert won the day on Twitter, in both the most mentions during the day and well in terms of the overall conversation across Cable News Twitter:
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Raw Data for Day: 2014-12-19-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-19-WordStats.csv
Thursday was all Colbert all the time, as his show’s ending dominated the conversation on Cable News Twitter:
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Raw data for day: 2014-12-18-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-18-WordStats.csv
Wednesday was brought to you by the letter C, as Cuba and Colbert were the topics that dominated Cable News Twitter yesterday:
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Raw data: 2014-12-17-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-17-WordStats.csv
One tweet ruled cabled news Twitter on Tuesday:
What don’t police in your community understand? What do you want to #AskACop as part of our #CopsUnderFire special? pic.twitter.com/WZLnI5pICv
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) December 16, 2014
Because of that, #askacop trended heavily — mostly in response to this and related tweets:
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Raw data for the day: 2014-12-16-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-16-WordStats.csv