X sees record usage during 2024 US Presidential Debate, says Elon Musk

Social media platform tracks over 2 billion impressions with over 242 million video views and 2 million posts

New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday said his social media platform X saw record usage as US President Joe Biden and his challenger former President Donald Trump, attended their first presidential debate on TV.

According to X, the minute-by-minute conversation about the US presidential debate spiked by “19 times from the start of the broadcast to its peak 90 minutes in.”

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The company said the scale of the global conversation on X was staggering during the debate. “We’ve tracked over 2 billion impressions with over 242 million video views and 2 million posts,” said the social media platform.

The tech billionaire stated that there was a “record usage of X during the US presidential debate”.

Record usage of 𝕏 during a Presidential debate! https://t.co/dCSPkxVPfh

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2024

A user posted, “X was going crazy during the debate. X live streams during the debate also had huge audiences.” “Amazing result of allowing people to speak about it freely, without the ban hammer of the ‘Censorship Complex’ hovering over them,” another X user commented.

Meanwhile, Biden said he “did well” at the debate with Trump and dismissed the likelihood of him stepping aside, as being demanded by some Democrats disappointed by his performance. “I think we did well,” Biden told a reporter.

Many Democrats, however, were concerned Biden may not be able to beat former President Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.