Relax, sunshine. No one's claiming the massive number of views were simultaneous ----- the interview has been watched and rewatched over 150M times over days (and climbing). The interest is phenomenal and ongoing --- whereas 8 of your personal favorites, combined, couldn't hold the interest of 12M for two hours.
So, please, stuff your virtue signaling with the rest of your knee jerks.
Apparently, the "views" aren't only not simultaneous, they're also not actual "views".
Caleb Hull
@CalebJHull
Tucker’s interview analytics are being completely inflated by people who don’t understand how social media works. Using the old version of the app, it shows 12M video plays, not 200M like everyone is pushing.
Still significant but no where close to 200M.
Caleb Hull
@CalebJHull
Anyone that sees a tweet in their feed is a "view." Doesn't matter if they never started the video. Also, if they see the video 17 times in their feed because people are quote tweeting, it counts as 17 views.
Caleb Hull
@CalebJHull
200M views means every time a person sees the tweet in their feed, it's a view. If the same person sees the tweet 37 times, it's 37 views. Doesn't even matter if they never clicked play on the video.
The video itself only has 12M views.