#WakeUpAmerica top topic in Cable News Twitter on Saturday, 2/14/15

Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-02-14

Well, I’m not sure what people were talking about yesterday, but I know what show they were talking about:

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Fox News’ Cashin’ In, which uses the hashtag #WakeUpAmerica, was not only the top rated show in Cable News Twitter, but the top topic in Cable News Twitter as well.

Raw data: 2015-02-14-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-14-WordStats.csv

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Cashin’ In wins another Saturday, tops next 7 shows combined (2/14/15)

Fox News’ Cashin’ In won Saturday, with a very respectable 5.2K tweets during the 11am hour.   That’s better than the next 7 top ranked shows, combined.  This is especially noticeable when you look at the graph:

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Hello? Is there anyone else out there?

I usually look at an absolute metric of how many mentions a show gets, but sometime’s it’s important to put it into context.  Last week, for example, Cashin’ In received over 7K mentions during its broadcast and this week it received over 5K.  Does that mean there was a drop-off in the audiece? Not really — the numbers were down proportionally for all shows, probably because audiences were either away for the holiday weekend or off shopping for last minute valentine’s day gifts.

Raw data: 2015-02-14-ShowStats.csv

Final note: this week I started counting both Cashin’ In by itself as well as with the panel. The reach number for the panel seems slightly off to me, although the reach for the show with and without the panel are computed individually and it could be just a quirk of timing (for example, if someone is spamming #WakeUpAmerica and their account got shut down between when the two reaches are calculated).  Twitter #s are always “inflight” because tweets and accounts can be deleted at any time.  Since the two numbers are very, very close to each other, it’s not worth worrying about.

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Chapel Hill Shootings continue to Dominate Cable News Twitter on 2/12/15, and RIP David Carr

Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-02-12

The Chapel Hill shootings continued to dominate the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Thursday.  I thought perhaps that the passing of the NY Times’ David Carr would have gotten higher in the discussion, but since it was not being discussed in the context of Cable News shows, my filters missed a lot of the conversation.

Still, I estimate that there were roughly 70K tweets that mentioned him yesterday, which made him a huge topic of conversation (just not in relation to Cable News shows).

Here’s the top 30 items from the day:

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And the raw data: 2015-02-12-WordStats.csv and 2015-02-12-TagStats.csv

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