Twitter: Over 6.8 million watched Trump inauguration stream
Social network says Trump's swearing-in was its most watched live-stream ever, just surpassing its election-night coverage.
A record 6.82 million people watched President Donald Trump's inauguration on Twitter.
More than 6.8 million people turned to Twitter to watch President Donald Trump's inauguration, the social network said Tuesday.
Twitter said that its six-hour stream of PBS Newshour's coverage on Friday reached a record 6,824,000 million unique viewers, peaking at 377,000 viewers at 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET.
Twitter added that the inauguration was its most-viewed live stream, just surpassing the 6.8 million who watched the social network's election-night stream.
The inauguration was a top trend globally with more than 12 million related tweets sent, peaking at 58,000 tweets per minute at 12:02 p.m. ET -- right around the time Trump delivered his inauguration speech.
However, there were inauguration-related glitches for Twitter. More than half a million Twitter users noticed on Friday that they were unwittingly following Trump via his @POTUS account when it switched from the control of outgoing President Barack Obama to Trump.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday. He said in series of tweets that a technical issue caused the problem, which also affected other administration accounts, including @VP, @WhiteHouse and @PressSec.
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