Chris Hayes wins a squeaker in Cable News Twitter on Friday, 11/21/14

Chris Hayes won Cable News Twitter Friday with the most mentions during his broadcast hour. He was followed very closely by The Kelly File, two showings of Hannity, Morning Joe, and The Ed Show:

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Here’s the raw data for the day: 2014-11-21-ShowStats.csv

Correction:

One of the perils of doing this as a non-profit amateur (in the best sense of that word) project is that I don’t always have the time necessary to stay on top of things 100%. Around the beginning of the month, Greta Van Susteren changed her Twitter user id from @gretawire to @greta.  I did not notice that until yesterday.  D’oh!  As a result, the counts for this month (except for Friday) are inaccurate.  Because of limitations in the Twitter API, I can only fix this for the past few days, and so I will revise those blog posts accordingly sometime in the next few days.  But for the rest of them, there’s nothing I can do about it. My apologies to Ms. VS, who does a formidable job of getting social media engagement.

 

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Kelly File wins Cable News Twitter for November 20, 2014

Consider the luck of The Kelly File: the President announces his immigration action during O’Reilly, leaving Kelly to follow-on with a facts-in-hand discussion of the breaking news.  And Twitter responded, giving Megyn Kelly the best day and best hour.

Following Megyn was Hannity, Chris Hayes & Rachel Maddow (who tag teamed to cover the President’s speech), and Anderson Cooper:

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Raw data is here: 2014-11-20-ShowStats.csv

 

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Stephen Colbert, Global Warming, and Snow — Trending Topics in Cable News Twitter 11/19/14

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-11-19

This one tweet pretty much dominated Cable News Twitter on Wednesday because of massive re-tweeting:

After that came snow, immigration, and, well noise…

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I’m sure the GOP is still upset about Gruber (he made it to #31, just below the cutoff for the chart), but there’s a certain element of Squirrel! in the President being able to change the topic to immigration.

Raw data for the day: 2014-11-19-TagStats.csv and 2014-11-19-WordStats.csv

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Kelly File, Don Lemon dominate Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, 11/19/14

The Kelly File had an exceptionally strong hour last night, giving her the best hour on Cable News.  Interesting, though, to see CNN Tonight generate so much buzz throughout the day that it had the best day overall. It’s not a show that normally appears on the top of the charts.  This was driven by all the chatter about Don Lemon’s questioning of a Bill Cosby rape accuser (as Don Lemon is tracked in the more expansive “CNN Tonight w/ Hosts” filter I use in addition to just CNN Tonight).

Following Kelly for best hour were Hannity, Outnumbered (an infrequent visit to the top of the charts for them), The Ed Show, and Morning Joe:

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The raw data is here: 2014-11-19-ShowStats.csv

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