Tech News: Trump's Interview on X Gets 74 Million Views. Sort of.
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm your host Jonathan Strickland, I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how |
| 0:17.9 | the tech are you? |
| 0:18.9 | It's time for the tech news for Thursday, August 24th, 2023. |
| 0:26.0 | Last night, here in the United States, there were a couple of important political events |
| 0:31.2 | and don't worry, this is not going to be about the actual politics, rather it's to talk |
| 0:37.6 | about TV versus online. |
| 0:41.6 | So last night, the Republican candidates who are vying for the party's nomination for |
| 0:47.0 | the upcoming general election, with one quite notable exception, all appeared in a debate |
| 0:53.6 | on Fox News. |
| 0:55.2 | I haven't seen reliable figures about how many people actually watch the debate. |
| 1:00.8 | I did see one piece that said there was 23.9 million people, but I haven't found any corroborating |
| 1:08.8 | reports on that and this was not a site I was familiar with, so I'm not comfortable actually |
| 1:13.2 | using that as a benchmark. |
| 1:15.1 | So I don't know how many people were watching it, however, we do know how many people saw, |
| 1:21.2 | although maybe they only briefly saw the counter programming to the debate. |
| 1:27.1 | Former president Donald Trump appeared in an interview with Tucker Carlson and this |
| 1:32.6 | was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. |
| 1:36.7 | So that interview gathered 74 million impressions, but here's the thing. |
| 1:43.4 | If you scrolled past the interview, if it just showed up in your feed and you went right |
| 1:47.7 | past it, that's still counted as an impression. |
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