• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Man. Hasan puts up numbers. How “real” are twitch viewer counts? Is that bot inflated or like, a genuine count?

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      4 months ago

      This site says about 80% of his viewers are logged-in Twitch users for this stream. Which is about the same as it was for his stream from yesterday.

      As I understand it, it’s not that 20% are definitely bots or that 80% are definitely “real” viewers, but that there’s a greater likelihood of non-logged-in viewers could be bots. I believe if you watch Twitch from an embedded video on another site then you’d be included in the non-logged-in view count.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah I always wonder the same thing with YT viewers. I think its mostly real.

        So probably 35-50k watching across all streams?

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            4 months ago

            I’m gonna put a wager down that this was bigger than the CO, record breaking rally.

            I bet we’re 50k+ in person. I did some basic crowd size estimates using the park. Then Bernie said there were people up to a half mile away. I think they set an new record today.