But the most impressive part is the number of people who ultimately tuned in to listen to the conversation. X posted that from the time they went live to the time they ended, 73 million people viewed the space, while four million people posted about it, amounting to a total of just over one billion views.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion

X @X
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.
2:43 AM · Aug 13, 2024 //

Here in the States, the mainstream press did not like the fact that Trump was effectively getting around them, and a Washington Post reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre if there was a way to stop the conversation from happening at all. Mainstream media figures on CNN threw a very professional temper tantrum about their loss of narrative control as well.

It's very clear that this wasn't supposed to happen like this. Trump was supposed to be confined to friendly interviews from center-right networks and Fox News, which the left has programmed the public to be wary of or outright hate. The conversation on X was more proof that the corporate media is losing its grip on the narrative. //

Beagles Lives Matter
12 hours ago
These numbers are impressive but what I want to know is the origination of the DDOS attack which sought to interfere with Musk’s live Trump interview on X!

Laocoön of Troy Beagles Lives Matter
12 hours ago
I'm a cynical bastage so I suspect it was done by Iran or the People's Republic with the CIA/FBI/NSA, Secret Service and Homeland Security with the assist. And yes...I really do think it was coordinated with the Democrat Party. At least partially... //

Fishin'withFredo Laocoön of Troy
11 hours ago
Because especially in the last 10 years or so the insane stuff turned out to actually BE shadowy conspiracy.

Laocoön of Troy Lugger66
11 hours ago
I'm not a conspiracy dude so it really pains me to come to this conclusion. I mean...why blame shadowy conspiracy when simple buffoonery will suffice? But we've repeatedly seen insane stuff I would have never thought possible even a few years ago.

DenverBill Laocoön of Troy
11 hours ago
You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.

• G. Carlin