It’s always interesting when a fairly generic word or phrase ends up at the top of the trending list, and Saturday saw the word “Always” at the top of the charts:
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It turns out that it’s a result of a fairly frequent use of the word Always in a variety of tweets and massive retweeting of this one:
That’s how sometimes always goes!
Top words and tags for the day: 2014-10-25-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-25-WordStats.csv
The school shooting in Marysville, Wa., managed to top ebola as the top topic in Cable News Twitter on Friday. Although the top topics are depressing overall, the release of nurse Nina Pham from treatment at least added a bit of good news in the overall ebola discussion.
Top topics:
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Raw data for the day: 2014-10-24-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-24-WordStats.csv
Ebola’s back as the top topic in Cable News Twitter as it makes an appearance in New York. There’s nothing like being a local story to make the Cable News Networks get all excited about it. Here’s the topics that were discussed:
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You can download the raw data here: 2014-10-23-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-23-WordStats.csv
The shooting in Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa was the dominant topic on Wednesday, as you might expect.
Raw data for the day: 2014-10-22-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-22-WordStats.csv
Lots of topics in play on Cable News Twitter on Tuesday: Oscar Pistorious, the Florida gubernatorial debate, Ferguson and Mike Brown, Jody Arias, and, yes, Ebola.
Raw data for the day: 2014-10-21-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-21-WordStats.csv