Comments on: When is a view not a view?

By: GRA

GRA — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 04:40:25 +0000

Views and subscribers really don’t count for much unless they watch 90% of the video and other videos on a consistent basis. If daily network tv rotted your brain so does social media and Youtube – the modern day version of “personal tv” if we don’t count streaming services where the creator is the star/the host. This is why I sorta prefer blogs more over Youtube.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:53:18 +0000

Boy, first Julia Roberts and now this guy. America has a serious deficiency in the math department, I tell you whut.

By: neo

neo — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:47:58 +0000

Steve (retired/recovering lawyer):

Your point is fairly well-taken until you say that every other Republican candidate is McClellan – that is, doesn’t fight. DeSantis has certainly fought very hard on many fronts in Florida, including against the press. You don’t have to like him or want him to be the nominee, but he certainly has proven himself a fighter. And Vivek – a candidate I do not like – certainly has shown himself a verbal fighter. I have no idea what he’d do if in office. But to say Trump is the only fighter seems untrue to me.

Also, of course, McClellan didn’t have to win an election. Personalities are a factor in that, too.

By: neo

neo — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:43:29 +0000

Banned Lizard:

I’m not sure what you’re referring to, but if it’s my reaction to the COVID links you have sometimes posted, a much better solution would be for you to cease posting COVID links that don’t prove what they supposedly say they prove, especially on threads that aren’t about COVID. There’s no need whatsoever for you to be silent. You are welcome to comment here.

By: neo

neo — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:46:18 +0000

Abraxas:

If you go to Twitter’s explanatory page, it appears that it counts all views and not just unique views. I’ve also read the a person doesn’t even have to view something to count as a view – people just have to scroll past it on their feed.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:22:20 +0000

Twitter and Tucker have their own reasons for pumping up the video’s importance. So do some in the media and many on the internet. But doesn’t each tweet tell you how many times it’s been viewed? So the number and the story are there for anyone to use. Trump does have a big ego. Everything does have to be the biggest and the best, and DJT makes the most of stories like this one, but I don’t think one can blame him for this. Some things are “baked into” the system, not things Trump or his team did on their own.

The general standard has always been unique views, hasn’t it? I don’t know if X counts each separate view from the same device, but if someone views a site several times from the same device, I think the multiple views usually don’t count in internet traffic statistics. If X has a different policy, that should be made clear by the company and by the media. Sure, there are also bots watching. “Hate viewers” and foreigners should count, though, if one’s interest is how much attention something is getting.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:22:03 +0000

or like marius in the jugurthan wars,

https://marksimonappledaily.substack.com/p/trump-the-dissident-returns?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1767545&post_id=136418569&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

By: Extinct Designator

Extinct Designator — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:10:34 +0000

Trump is a purposeful vessel of middle-class anger at our incompetent elite. I will crawl across broken glass to vote for him. The more they tell me, “no, you can’t choose him,” the more I love him. I rarely listen to him now. It suffices to know that he will bluster, brag and bloviate driving the David Brooks of the world crazy. That is what I want him to do. I guess he’s made me cruder. I love the mean tweets now when before I would cringe a little.

Would I like to see him admit that he got played by Fauci, Collins and big pharma. Sure. Can’t say that I would have done better. But he is the perfect weapon. I would hope he is under no delusions that he can make deals with people this time. Vivek says he will dismantle the permanent bureaucracy, but I feel certain trump will flush the torpedo tubes. Might be futile but better to bring this all to a head in 2024 than go back to BushMcSlimeDelecto. I despise the GOPe more than the Dems at this point.

I can see why Tucker might annoy. The laugh has grown on me. The man is smart with a keen analytical gift to present complex material but more importantly he has the courage to say that the emperor has no clothes. We need more Tuckers.

By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)

Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:15:31 +0000

I hate to say it, but regardless of the outcome of this tempest in a twitter teapot, our situation is like the one facing the Union in November, 1862. George McClellan was in charge of the Union Army, and fought a series of draws/losses with the smaller Confederate forces under Lee. McClellan was a competent general and good at organizing, all traditional qualities of military achievement, but he was skittish and afraid to commit to all-out action, creating a great deal of frustration. The Union dithered on until Grant was appointed by Lincoln to lead the Union Armies, eventually grinding down the Confederacy and emerging victorious. Grant was uncouth and lacking interest in the niceties of military etiquette, but as Lincoln observed, “He fights.” So it is with Trump. Every other republican “candidate” is McClellan.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:47:21 +0000

When someone says they’ve had enough, I take them at their word. So I’ll just be quiet for a while.