Anyone saying 'the crowd count is in' is, well, probably making shit up. Why you won't have a solid count: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/us/politics/How-Crowds-at-the-Capitol-Have-Been-Counted.html …
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Clouds mean there won't be clear satellite imagery of the mall, and so an inexact science is even more vague today https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump-inauguration-crowd.html …
So when you see people suggesting hard numbers for the inaugural crowd, a) don't retweet them, c'mon! And b) ask where they got that info
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A little blue check mark by someone's name doesn't make them an expert on, well, anything, including crowd counting.
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Anyone purporting to offer you a solid number for how many people were in the Inaugural crowd today probably also has some snake oil to sell
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amen - I had a hard rule to never give out crowd estimates on
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