The video titled ‘Alevi’, published by Presidential Candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on April 19, 2023, is allegedly the most watched video on Twitter. However, the situation is different. Although it is one of the most popular videos of 2023 all over the world, the most watched video does not belong to Kılıçdaroğlu.
As the elections approached, social media has become an important communication channel for the leaders in our country, as in the elections all over the world. In fact, the rallies or the statements they made to the traditional media turned around. being discussed on social mediacreates new agendas.
Of course, this is not surprising. However, for the 2023 elections, it is seen that the voters in Turkey consume messages in a way that is integrated into social media more than ever before. As the most concrete proof of this situation, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the Chairman of the CHP and the Presidential Candidate of the Nation’s Alliance, ‘Alevi’ video is showing. However, the truth of the matter is not so.
- NOTE: This news is independent of the explanations in the video in question and the discussions that took place after the video. It is prepared only about the most watched videos according to Twitter’s statistics.
Before we start: There are 2 different “views” counts on Twitter, let’s explain this first:
- Number of “views” on the video: Shows how many times the video has been watched
- Number of “views” below the tweet: Shows how many views the tweet has been seen
The number of “views” on the black box on the video is shown in all tweets with video content shared on Twitter for many years. Not the tweet in question, but the video in that tweet until that moment. “how many times watched” it states. In addition, this number of views is not “unique views”, that is, if a user watches the video 5 times, +5 is added to the number of views on the video. The number of unique views is shared only with account holders, which can be clearly seen in the example we gave above on a video of the Webtekno Twitter account.
The number of “views” under the tweet is included in all tweets, regardless of video, image, just text. This feature was brought to Twitter on December 22, 2022, with the management of Elon Musk, and after that date, in all tweets it clearly shows how many times that tweet has been viewed. If you look at a tweet posted before this date, you won’t be able to see the view count.
The number of views under Tweets on the English version of Twitter is “Impression”; The number of views on the video is expressed as “Views”. However, this statistic is displayed to all users except the account owner, under the name “Views”. For this reason, in the Turkish version of Twitter, both stats are “Viewed” is given as. This creates confusion. In fact, this confusion will disappear if the video says “viewed” instead of “viewed”. For this, the Twitter team needs to have a better command of Turkish.
The video of @kilicdarogluk is as follows:
Update: The most watched video does not belong to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, there are also more watched videos:
According to Teyit.org’s study, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s video is not actually the most watched Twitter video of all time, as claimed. Yes, the related video’s engagement numbers such as likes or retweets are higher compared to other popular videos above, but the number of views is not an all-time high as stated.
The list shared with the claim of Twitter’s most watched videos is as follows:
1. “Alevi” video, @kilicdarogluk
- Views: 29.7 million
This video of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, one of the 4 candidates to compete for the 2023 Presidential Election, within the first 6 days Leaving behind the video showing Messi’s dribble, he reached the top.
The fact that a video about Turkey’s agenda, in Turkish and without subtitles, has such high views, and that its tweet has such high views, at first sight, of course, shows how much we have embraced social media, especially Twitter. As a matter of fact, Twitter, regardless of party bot accounts and trolls create artificial interaction an environment. This also needs to be taken into account.
2. “Messi’s feint against Felipe Luiz” video, @idoknowball
- Views: 26.5 million
In these images, which is the most watched video on Twitter in 2022, we watch Messi’s dribble while controlling an air ball. Images, played in the first month of 2022 Barcelona – Atlético Madrid match taken. Barcelona, who wore the jersey of that period, won 1-0 in the match in which Messi made this feint. Messi still hasn’t revealed how he scored this amazing feint.
3. “Metaverse prank” video, @elonmusk
- Views: 5.2 million
Elon Musk, who bought the platform months after he posted this tweet, was one of those who gave Twitter its due. From time to time His jokes went viral on Reddit and 9gag continues to share according to the agenda and this video is one of them. Only sharing it in January 2022, when the metaverse current peaked, made the joke go viral. We can translate the description on the video as follows;
“Me fighting in the metaverse prison yard trying to take screenshots for NFTs”
4. “Falcon 9 rocket landing” video, @SpaceX
- Views: 3.1 million
On January 13, 2022, by SpaceX, of which Elon Musk is the founder and CEO; We are watching right after the launch it organized to carry mini-satellites belonging to states and some private companies to Earth orbit. sending its payload into space 70-foot Falcon 9 rocket, performing one of its numerous successful landings. The images are magnificent. In addition, this video has the title of being the most watched video of a private company on Twitter.
5. “Neymar dribbling runs” video, @ChampionsLeague
- Views: 3.1 million
In this video, one of the classic edits shared by the official Champions League account, Neymar made with both Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain jerseys. deadly runs we are watching. There aren’t many talents who can dribble before the ball is at their feet, anyway.
6. “Euphoria trailer” video, @euphoriaHBO
- Views: 2.9 million
The second season trailer of HBO’s popular series Euphoria is the most watched trailer video on Twitter. Although overshadowed by HBO’s other successful series, Euphoria continues to use the teen drama theme. a realistic drama and brings it together with great acting and script.
7. “Looking at 2022” video, @BillGates
- Views: 2 million
The speeches he made before the pandemic that turned 2020 into a nightmare, donations and scientific studies funded by the foundation Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, who is often victimized by conspiracy theories due to his reasons… In this video, he shares his best wishes for 2022 after years of pandemic;
“2021 has been an incredibly difficult year for most people, myself included, but there are reasons to be optimistic that 2022 will be better”
We think that 2022 has been more difficult for most people and 2023 has started more difficult.
8. Cricket video, @cricket.com.au
- Views: 1.8 million
Although cricket is not known in our country, it is actually a popular sport in many parts of the world. In this video, we see the Indian team captain Virat Kohli’s greeting with a cricket bat during a training session. As he wrote in the tweet watch with the sound on we recommend.
9. “Tribune accident” video, @_The72
- Views: 1.7 million
In these moments recorded in one of the matches in the English Second Football League, we watch a fan kick a soccer ball that came to him and the accident that followed.
10. “Ozark trailer” video, @netflix
Ozark is one of the most popular productions of Netflix and it has a lot of fans in our country. on twitter from the main Netflix account This sharing seems to have been well received by the fans of the series.
Conclusion: Twitter is not a video platform, which is exactly why going viral with videos proves that you have a serious impact on the platform. Of course, due to Elon Musk and his increasingly unstable structure due to the policies he changed. Twitter is moving away from being a reliable platform. For this reason, we need to state that the above statistics are not binding.