The Kelly File wins Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, 11/5/14

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Election night coverage continued into the first few hours of the day on Wednesday, which tended to disrupt the normal patterns of Twitter chat until the day got underway.  The Kelly File won the best hour, while “The Five” with the host accounts won the best day due to the election coverage overall.

You can see the 48 hour trend in election related tweets in this posting.

You can download the raw data for the day here: 2014-11-05-ShowStats.csv

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Election Night Activity on Twitter by Cable News Network (11/4/14 – 11/5/14)

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All of the cable news networks had special coverage the mid-term elections starting at 6pm EST on Tuesday, running into the next morning.  Here are the number of tweets in each hour broken down by network:

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What’s interesting, but expected, is that the mention levels were roughly the same across the three networks until the election coverage kicked off at 6pm, and then the growing realization that the republicans would control the Senate drove Fox News’ tweets way high while MSNBC’s and CNN’s mentions remained subdued.

The raw data by hour is here: 2014-11-04 Election by Network.csv