> 200,000,000

[Jolly]

Number of views for Tucker's recent Trump interview. Granted, the metric doesn't measure how much of the interview was watched by each person that clicked on the video, but over 200M hits on anything in a few days is impressive.

But no matter the popularity, Tucker (or any primarily X poster) still has to make a living.

How can this level of popularity be monetized on the platform? Or is the platform simply a springboard?

[George K]

Yeah, the problem is how does one measure "views."

Anything longer than 1-2 seconds counts as "a view." If I watch it three times, even for one second, that counts as 3 "views."

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly said in > 200,000,000:

How can this level of popularity be monetized on the platform?

I think that is what Mr. Musk is struggling with. How to make money on it.

I have never had a twitter/X account, so I dont know how the advertising works there.

[LuFins Dad]

I’m sure Donald being back will help.

[jon-nyc]

Twitter started paying content producers a bit based on interaction with their accounts, so long as they’re subscribers.

Apparently getting lots of replies is much more lucrative than lots of views.

That’s why some accounts have started asking questions to their followers. Example, the cute-animal account that George often quotes here recently asked its followers to post pictures of their pets. I assume that was for $