Night one of last week’s Democratic National Convention—featuring such speakers as First Lady Michelle Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders—led the Nielsen Twitter TV ratings in the week ended July 31, with nearly 3.3 million unique tweets.

Night four, which featured Hillary Clinton’s historic acceptance as the first woman to be the official nominee of a major U.S. political party, came in second, with nearly 2.8 million unique tweets.

Following the four nights of the DNC was Fox’s Teen Choice Awards 2016, although the Sunday night show only generated 554,000 unique tweets, far less than night two of the DND with 1.66 million.

Reality and unscripted programming dominated the rest of the week, with ABC’s The Bachelorette coming in sixth, followed by USA’s WWE Monday Night Raw in seventh and SyFy’s Sharknado: The 4th Awakens in eighth with 139,000.​ Sharknado got its start four summers ago when it broke out as a social sensation, but that enthusiasm seems to have abated a bit with the fourth iteration.

The WWE appears again on the list in ninth place with USA’s WWE Smackdown! Finally, tenth place went to VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta.

On the eve of the Summer Olympics, sports is a bit slow with baseball mostly dominating the list at places 1, 3, 4,6, 8 and 10. Pay-per-view UFC fight came in second, while the final round of golf’s PGA Championship came in fifth. All tweeting around sports was sluggish though, with the most-tweeted event, MLB’s Seattle Mariners at the Chicago Cubs, only garnering 108,000 tweets.

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