Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat, New York, trolled Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Republican, boasting that he drew more viewers to stream video games than when DeSantis launched his presidential campaign. bottom. The incident took place in chat on Twitter Space on Tuesday.
The launch of DeSantis’ Twitter Spaces campaign was plagued with technical problems due to issues such as a delayed start, two separate Spaces chats, and poor audio quality.
More than half a million Twitter users waited for DeSantis to appear in the first Spaces chat shared by CEO Elon Musk, but more than half of them were in the second chat when DeSantis launched the campaign. I didn’t get there.
Fewer than 200,000 Twitter users were participating in the second Spaces chat when DeSantis started the announcement. Ultimately, over 300,000 of his Twitter users ended up joining the space where DeSantis launched his campaign.
However, Ocasio-Cortez noted that this was a smaller audience than when she streamed her playing video games on Twitch.
“David Sachs just made a ridiculous hoax that Ron DeSantis’ Twitter space is the biggest group ‘ever met online’. 100,000 people on this issue,” NBC said. said Ben Collins of tweeted.
“When I played Among Us, more people joined in,” said Ocasio-Cortez. Said In response to Collins’ post.
More people joined us when we played Among Us 👾 https://t.co/zBoDCM0XmL
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 24, 2023
On his October 2020 Twitch stream, Ocasio-Cortez had 435,000 concurrent viewers at the peak of his stream.
Trump Press Secretary Steven Chang share A screenshot of the space when 303,000 people were watching noted, “More people are watching CNN than DeSantis’ Twitter space.”
More people watch CNN than DeSantis’ Twitter space. pic.twitter.com/jMdE1HaQpU
— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) May 24, 2023
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