The ~1 Billion views thing from Elon was a weird bit of math. The Space recording after the fact says "26.4M tuned in". That's about what I saw around half-way through before I had to help put the kids to bed. Elon then muddied the waters a bit commingling the stats posted by the @X account:
"Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump's Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump's conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views."
So, the 4 million posts that simply mentioned Elon or PDJT during that time span had a collective total of 998 million views
Many of those millions were then relaying the live stream. I watched The Benny Show and they used the feed and rebroadcast it. They had 1.2 Million alone
Sure, I had a rumble link going at one point when Spaces wasn't working, but Elon and X can't track those views. His boast just made the whole thing ridiculous. 1/8th of the world did not tune in listen to the Space.
"Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion," Musk posted on his social media platform X early Tuesday morning following the interview.
The message followed a previous post outlining that, "Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump's Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump's conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views."
A view may be 1 person, or a family watching, or a bar full of people. If I comment on it, after having watched it - that's 2 views. If my wife replies to 6 people commenting on the interview - that's 7 interactions, or views. If we access the interview, and skip through it for key parts - that's yet another view. It's not the same as 1/8th of the world population. It's a metric as to how many times the same content was addressed.
The ~1 Billion views thing from Elon was a weird bit of math. The Space recording after the fact says "26.4M tuned in". That's about what I saw around half-way through before I had to help put the kids to bed. Elon then muddied the waters a bit commingling the stats posted by the @X account:
So, the 4 million posts that simply mentioned Elon or PDJT during that time span had a collective total of 998 million views
Many of those millions were then relaying the live stream. I watched The Benny Show and they used the feed and rebroadcast it. They had 1.2 Million alone
Sure, I had a rumble link going at one point when Spaces wasn't working, but Elon and X can't track those views. His boast just made the whole thing ridiculous. 1/8th of the world did not tune in listen to the Space.
Context is everything.
A view may be 1 person, or a family watching, or a bar full of people. If I comment on it, after having watched it - that's 2 views. If my wife replies to 6 people commenting on the interview - that's 7 interactions, or views. If we access the interview, and skip through it for key parts - that's yet another view. It's not the same as 1/8th of the world population. It's a metric as to how many times the same content was addressed.