RobDownSouth
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It's an argument of faith among teh MAGA Faithful that Trump's interview walloped the Republican Debate on Fox, after all Trump had "220 million views".
The reality is a bit stranger.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter to provide a "safe space" for hard right vitriol and fear mongering, one of the first features he turned off was "Video Views", i.e. who watched a majority of a video offered up on Twitter.
In it's place was the nebulous "views"....what is a "view"? A view is when you pause on a tweet for two or more seconds. See it and scroll by? That's a "view".
Neilsen Ratings has a proprietary method of their own for Twitter Video Views, and found that the number of people who watched Carlson and Trump for ten minutes or more was......wait for it....14 million people.
The website Mashable was able to confirm Neilsen's data because they found out that the Android version of Twitter still keeps track of "video views" (it just hides the number) and the Android count was roughly 14 million viewers.
The Fox debate drew 12 million Koolaid-resistant viewers.
Trump's 14.8 million is a clear victory over 12 million, but nowhere near the "200 million" claim
The reality is a bit stranger.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter to provide a "safe space" for hard right vitriol and fear mongering, one of the first features he turned off was "Video Views", i.e. who watched a majority of a video offered up on Twitter.
In it's place was the nebulous "views"....what is a "view"? A view is when you pause on a tweet for two or more seconds. See it and scroll by? That's a "view".
Neilsen Ratings has a proprietary method of their own for Twitter Video Views, and found that the number of people who watched Carlson and Trump for ten minutes or more was......wait for it....14 million people.
The website Mashable was able to confirm Neilsen's data because they found out that the Android version of Twitter still keeps track of "video views" (it just hides the number) and the Android count was roughly 14 million viewers.
The Fox debate drew 12 million Koolaid-resistant viewers.
Trump's 14.8 million is a clear victory over 12 million, but nowhere near the "200 million" claim