It’s a shame CNN doesn’t do a sequel to Blackfish, because people sure keep talking about it:
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Raw Data: 2015-01-03-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-03-WordStats.csv
With the holidays fading away, Cashin’ In kicked off the new year with strong wins for both best hour and best day on Cable News Twitter, Saturday:
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This is the first weekend in a couple of weeks with a near normal schedule (and near normal hosts). Following Cashin’ In were both hours of The Melissa Harris-Perry Show (with Ms. Harris-Perry back at the anchor desk), although her two hours combined still brought in less Twitter mentions than the half-hour Cashin’ In did.
Raw data for the day: 2015-01-03-ShowStats.csv
Update 3/28/16:
I’m not sure why people keep tweeting links to this old article, but, really, there’s nothing worthwhile here other than a historical analysis of what people were talking about on cable news over a year ago. There is far more recent, and relevant, coverage of what’s happening at Seaworld elsewhere.
CNN’s perennial favorite documentary Blackfish, which was not shown, managed to pick up a huge amount of mentions on Cable News Twitter nonetheless as the topic has a life of its own, with over 40,000 mentions of #Blackfish. Mentions of Iran were in a distant second.
Since Blackfish is not currently being shown on CNN, I’ll kill the counts of it in subsequent analyses (unless/until CNN reruns it).
Raw Data: 2015-01-02-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-02-WordStats.csv
The day after New Year’s Day was a shortened schedule on many networks, and there wasn’t a lot of activity on Cable News Twitter. Fox News’ “The Five” had the best hour, while MSNBC’s block of generic news managed to sweep up the most mentions during the day.
Raw Data: 2015-01-02-ShowStats.csv
The start of the new year continued to dominate Cable News Twitter on New Year’s Day.
Raw Data: 2015-01-01-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-01-WordStats.csv