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it's long been assumed twitter just kind of makes its metrics up, especially now that "views" are a thing you can "see" on regular tweets, so tough to say. what can be said: it did unambiguously reach a lot of people, but i doubt it was anywhere near 16m unique people
Right, exactly. And that got me thinking: what counts as a view?
Do you have to click play and watch it or does it count as a view if it shows up in your feed and you scroll past it? I'm leaning toward the latter, but I don't have any knowledge of how Twitter's metrics work (if there is even any logic to them, that is).
I definitely agree that it wasn't anywhere near 16m unique people, so I do feel a little better about our species. lol
autoplay is another factor, since i know some twitter videos absolutely do that. they also repeat.
another thing to feel good about: tucker is a known quantity, so i doubt he's reaching a lot of new people (and especially not on Twitter, where people are already likely to be quite set in ideology)