I sat on what I think was most popular livestream for 4-5 hours yesterday and never saw it peak above 5k simultaneous
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@Chronotope Sure. But totals aso add up via the media ecology. During "Arab Spring", Al Jazeera picked up social media feeds, like CSPAN.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @zeynep @Chronotope
At time they tweeted it, based on displayed Viewer count (still visible) I just don't think it got to 1M. 1/2
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Periscope has new option to let recordings stay up. Hope they enabled it. (And Views will grow) 2/2
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Replying to @bluechoochoo @zeynep
True, even harder to assess long-tail impact of these videos without a lot more time.
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Replying to @Chronotope @bluechoochoo
It transforms the whole ecology; nothing stays the same. Much bigger deal than view count but harder to assess.
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Replying to @zeynep @bluechoochoo
I totally concur. It also transforms what can be considered effective politics and protest.
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Replying to @Chronotope @bluechoochoo
Youtube told me years ago that within an hour of anything major almost *anywhere" they get footage.
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Replying to @zeynep @bluechoochoo
Now Facebook gets it as it is happening, or close to it. It's crazy. Awesome, but yeah, welcome to the future.
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Replying to @Chronotope @bluechoochoo
Funny thing is I know what often happens next; this isn't as good for dissent as sometimes thought. Mixed bag.
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Filter failure, massive overload and verification weakness come with this new power, and they can be debilitating.
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Replying to @helenacobban
They're all IRL; nothing is unreal. Different point; availability of feeds breaks censorships but creates other, novel issues.
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