Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s Twitter post announcing he would be bringing his show to Twitter was the No. 1 post for the week, according to an analysis.
His post and video accumulated around 900,000 likes and nearly 200,000 re-tweets as of Saturday afternoon, Forbes magazine said, adding that the post beat out everyone else on the platform for the time. It outperformed Korean pop superstars BTS, which posted a photo of one of its members that got 530,000 likes, and Taylor Swift, who posted an update from her tour that generated some 463,000 “likes.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk also dropped below Carlson’s post. Musk’s post announcing that a new CEO—NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino—would take over Twitter generated some 408,000 likes, according to the analysis….