Category Archives: Cable News Trending Topics

Garner killing dominates Cable News Twitter Topics on Thursday, 12/4/14

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-12-04

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

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Ferguson, yes, but Colbert too dominate topics in Cable News Twitter, 12/2/14

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-12-02

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:

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:

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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

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