Inauguration Live Stream Breaks Twitter Viewership Record

More than 6.8 million tuned in to Twitter and PBS NewsHour’s live-streamed coverage of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a Twitter spokesman said Tuesday. That made it Twitter’s highest viewed live stream, just beating BuzzFeed and Twitter’s election night coverage, it said. The inauguration broadcast peaked at 377,000 concurrent viewers at 12:15 p.m., it said. Twitter users sent 12 million tweets about the inauguration Friday and 11.5 million tweets globally about the Women’s March the next day, the company said earlier (see 1701230059).