His first show brought in over 26 million “video views,” which is a Twitter metric that records a view as anyone who watches a video for more than 2 seconds. While the metric’s reliability has been questioned, it has nevertheless declined significantly since the show’s launch, with Carlson’s most recent show only getting 3.8 million video views, marking a drop of 86 percent.

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    Smiling at this. A dead show on a dying platform. Karma is coming for these two people.

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    Delicious. Thanks for some good news today, I needed it.

    I wish I could see the viewer retention graph for a video, I’d bet most people aren’t making it even 10 minutes in to an episode.

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      I want to see how many people have less than 10 or 15 sec watch time… like how many “video views” are just the video autoplaying in someone’s feed as they scroll by?

      3.8 mil “video views” is still more than the 3.3 mil viewers he got on Fox, but >2 sec is such a trash metric that I really have no idea how many people are actually watching.

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      I believe his Twitter show episodes are around 10 minutes long.

      Knowledge Fight has been deconstructing them the last few weeks and they seem pretty short on content so far.

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        Well, Tucker doesn’t have all those Fox writers and researchers to fall back on anymore.

        From the very beginning of his career, he’s never actually known anything about, well, anything.

        He’s good at faking it, but that only works for the short term. After that it will be the same repetitive talking points.

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    So, let me preface this for context by saying that I’m an ICU nurse. You would be amazed at how many (and often) people come through my unit, literally on their death bed, who will wake up just long enough to get angry, explain how they “think Biden should be tried for treason” or something similarly inflammatory, and then tell me to put the TV on Fox news. They may only be conscious for a little bit, but this is a revolving conversation… These people live for this hateful content, they consume it during every waking moment - but 9 times out of 10 they are too fucking old to go searching for it on the internet.

    Fox ‘news’ is the megaphone and Tucker isn’t on the horn anymore.