Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-12-05
Eric Garner and the police were the top topics in Cable News Twitter on Friday, by far:
Raw data here: 2014-12-05-WordStats.csv and 2014-12-05-TagStats.csv
Eric Garner and the police were the top topics in Cable News Twitter on Friday, by far:
Raw data here: 2014-12-05-WordStats.csv and 2014-12-05-TagStats.csv
Continuing discussion over the grand jury’s no bill in the case of Eric Garner and the protests that generated dominated cable news Twitter on Thursday. There were ongoing conversation on other topics, as well, but nothing that matched the intensity of the Garner conversation.
Raw data: 2014-12-04-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-04-WordStats.csv
Different day, different city, same story: The return of no indictment in the killing of Eric Garner drove the conversation on Cable News Twitter yesterday.
Raw data for the day: 2014-12-03-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-03-WordStats.csv
Ferguson continued to be the top topic in cable news, but an appearance of Lady Gaga (and, more importantly, tweets by Lady Gaga) managed to almost raise the Colbert Report to the top of the trending topics list. This tweet got over 3200 retweets yesterday:
Suit By Emanuel Ungaro. See you with Tony on the Colbert Report Tonight! #CheekToCheek pic.twitter.com/dp0ZZxqroH
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) December 2, 2014
The four most popular tweets about the Colbert Report got 3200+, 1500+, 1400+, and 500+ retweets yesterday, which is why, when you look at the topics chart for the day, you see Colbert so often:
Because The Colbert Report runs at the very end of the 24 hour period I track as a day, I would expect this to continue into Wednesday’s numbers as well. We’ll see!
Raw data for the day: 2014-12-02-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-02-WordStats.csv
Monday’s conversation was dominated by conversation about Ferguson…
Raw data: 2014-12-01-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-01-WordStats.csv