It was announced Wednesday that Martin Bashir had resigned from MSNBC, and that was good enough to give his show the best hour during the day — even though he wasn’t there. It was hard to count all the mentions of Martin himself on Twitter, as people were inconsistent in how they mentioned him, but my estimates are that, for the day, there were between 16K and 75K tweets that discussed him (depending upon how fuzzy the search).
What’s interesting is not really how many tweets he got on Wednesday (or even on Thursday), but how many he will get in the days to come: Is the anger (and, on some folks’ part, joy) about his being seemingly forced out going to last, or will it all be forgotten in a week. We’ll watch.