{"id":1920680,"date":"2023-04-28T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T06:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-draws-18-million-and-counting-with-video-statement\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T02:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T06:57:29","slug":"tucker-draws-18-million-and-counting-with-video-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-draws-18-million-and-counting-with-video-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Draws 18 Million \u2013 And Counting \u2013 With Video Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftucker-draws-18-million-and-counting-with-video-statement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Draws Massive Audience with First Video Statement<\/h2>\n<p>Former Fox News host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tucker-carlson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> has drawn an audience of more than 18 million with his first video statement following his surprise departure from the network. Carlson dropped the video, which ran just over two minutes in length, via Twitter on Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. ET \u2014 at almost exactly the time his fans would normally have tuned in to watch \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The popular host, who routinely drew an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/fox-news-takes-ratings-hit-after-tucker-carlsons-exit-1235400150\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average audience<\/a> of over 3 million in his primetime slot, had reached more than six times that \u2014 18.7 million \u2014 by midday on Thursday, less than 24 hours after the video went live.<\/p>\n<h3>Positive Message from Carlson<\/h3>\n<p>In the video, Carlson made no mention of his former employer. Instead, his positive message focused on observations made once he stepped away from the media bubble \u2014 namely that there are a lot of truly kind, generous, and hilarious people out there and that Americans still have an appetite for people who will tell them the truth.<\/p>\n<p>And while Carlson\u2019s Twitter account does not appear to be set up for subscribers \u2014 which would allow him to turn his Twitter feed into an income stream \u2014 the massive response to his video suggests that the market could be ready to follow him in that direction.<\/p>\n<h3>Political Response<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAmerica loves Tucker Carlson,\u201d Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tweeted in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">This video has gotten over 15 million views in 14 hours. <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@TuckerCarlson<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u2019s star is only going to shine brighter and stronger than ever. We love you, Tucker!\u201d Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1651588044590284800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c15 million views on the video &#038; 45 on the tweet. Legacy media will do everything in its power to make sure Tucker has no voice through 2024 \u2026 Just watch,\u201d Donald Trump Jr. observed. \u201cAlso note who has his back &#038; who doesn\u2019t!!! A silenced Tucker is a uniparty\/warmonger\/deep-state\/globalists dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Twitter Analytics<\/h3>\n<p>According to Twitter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/using-twitter\/media-studio-analytics#:~:text=What%20metric%20is%20used%20for,uploaded%20videos%20and%20live%20broadcasts.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internal analytics<\/a>, \u201cthe main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publication, the tweet itself had been viewed over 62 million times. The included video had been viewed 18.7 million times. For comparison, 18.7 million people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/253743\/academy-awards--number-of-viewers\/#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20around%2018.7%20million,million%20was%20back%20in%202014.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also watched<\/a> the 2023 Academy Awards during the live broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9125\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson drew an audience of more than 18 million \u2014 and still counting \u2014 with his first video statement following his surprise departure from the network. Carlson dropped the video, which ran just over two minutes in length, via Twitter on Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. ET \u2014 at almost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1920681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18207,10903,3618,6317,3748,4440],"class_list":["post-1920680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-counting","tag-draws","tag-riot","tag-statement","tag-tucker","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}