Tuesday was a great day for The Ed Show on Twitter, with Morning Joe a close second…

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The Ed Show starts the week off with a strong Monday, winning best hour.  All-in With Chris Hayes also had a strong evening, but after that MSNBC’s schedule fizzled out, perhaps because MSNBC viewers were following Thomas Roberts’ lead and celebrating Cinco de Mayo.  In CNN, Anderson Cooper managed to get over the 1K mentions mark.

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The Melissa Harris-Perry Show took best hour and Meet The Press, which re-broadcasts on MSNBC, took best day.  MTP demonstrates the power of traditional broadcast networks, which still have a much larger reach and audience than cable-only networks.  If you took MTP out of the competition, Harris-Perry would have won best day as well.

(And, yes, I know I used a greengrocer’s apostrophe in the title)

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The Melissa Harris-Perry show had the best hour of the day on Saturday with a relatively weak showing in mentions.  More interesting, perhaps, is the amount of mentions the hosts of “The Five” got throughout the day, as their discussion of Benghazi spilled over from Friday.

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Ensemble shows like The View, The Five, and The Cycle are interesting to look at from the perspective of engagement.  On one hand, there is a thing which is the show and people watch it.  But then there are the hosts, and that’s who people engage with.  But with numerous hosts, it’s hard to tell if the host is getting engagement outside of the context of the show or inside.  So, in general, it’s notable when the hosts of a show get high engagement during the broadcast of the show but less notable outside of it.

On Friday, “The Five”, show and hosts, got the most mentions during it’s broadcast hour. With Benghazi being the top topic of the day, I think it’s safe to say that Benghazi is getting worked over again for a little bit of Fox outrage…

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