MSNBC’s scheduled was truncated by the Olympics — no Up with Steve Kornacki, and a half-hour trimmed off of the Melissa Harris-Perry show. And the action on Twitter shows this, with the best hour being Melissa Harris-Perry’s 11 am hour, which garnered only 1400 mentions.
The world of sports, however, drove Piers Morgan’s day over the top, with 82K mentions. And that’s with an attempt to filter out tweets about Arsenal; in total, Piers received almost 150K mentions yesterday. (As a side note, it’s clear that I cannot tease apart the tweets about Piers’ sporting interests and his show, so I’m abandoning that now).