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this is probably exactly why x started doing video. youtube is so full of fake channels that it readily presents fake ones at the top of search results.

the x stream has been great and had a far greater reach (2.5 million) than any of the youtube streams by a factor of 10x or so.

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Twitter is awash with garbage too, likely even worse. Every major account, without exception, has multiple fake clones (often many created per day) running around trying to steal clicks and occasionally phish users. The Internet is just hard.

You're just saying that the Twitter official account is official. No reason you can't have an Official Account anywhere else, SpaceX just doesn't.

when you search spacex on x, you are presented the official account first.

when i searched spacex on multiple youtube apps this morning, i couldn't even find the official spacex account after going through pages of menus.

Again, because there is no official SpaceX feed on YouTube, they deleted it. Can you link to the channel you think you should be seeing?

To be clear: if you search for "SpaceX" on Google, you get the corporate website as the first link and the Twitter account as the second. But YouTube has nothing to show you, by SpaceX's choice.

This is what shows up for me: https://www.youtube.com/spacex

you are searching channels. that is not available on, the roku app, for instance.

if you search by channels on x, for fair comparison, there are no spoofed spacex accounts to be seen anywhere. https://twitter.com/search?q=spacex&src=recent_search_click&...

NSF had 1.5M views on their stream, Everyday Astronaut had 1.8M views.

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