Wednesday was brought to you by the letter C, as Cuba and Colbert were the topics that dominated Cable News Twitter yesterday:
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Raw data: 2014-12-17-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-17-WordStats.csv
The waning days of the Colbert Report are giving it a strong finish on Cable News Twitter and a win in both best day and best hour on Wednesday. It was also a surprisingly weak day for the rest of Cable News on Twitter, with Colbert being followed by Hannity, a re-run of Colbert at 9am EST, Chris Hayes, and The Kelly File:
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ICYMI, my blog post about the Sony Hack and why the Sony Executives are not completely innocent.
Raw data for the day: 2014-12-17-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-17 Schedule.csv
One tweet ruled cabled news Twitter on Tuesday:
What don’t police in your community understand? What do you want to #AskACop as part of our #CopsUnderFire special? pic.twitter.com/WZLnI5pICv
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) December 16, 2014
Because of that, #askacop trended heavily — mostly in response to this and related tweets:
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Raw data for the day: 2014-12-16-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-16-WordStats.csv
Tuesday was all Hannity, all the time. Following Hannity was The Kelly File, The Colbert Report, Greta van Susteren, and The Ed Show:
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Raw data for the day: 2014-12-16-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-16 Schedule.csv
There were two topics that consumed Cable News Twitter on Monday. The first was the death-by-hanging of NC african-american teen Lennon Lacy, which his family believes was a lynching and the FBI is now investigating. The second is the end of the hostage taking in Sydney, Australia.
These two topics were very close to each other in mentions:
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Full data for the day: 2014-12-15-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-15-WordStats.csv