Imran Khan’s Twitter Spaces Session Shatters All Previous Records

Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan, broke the record of the largest Twitter Space session with more than 165,000 listeners on Wednesday.

PTI’s social media lead, Jibran Ilyas, and Khan’s former focal person, Dr. Arsalan Khalid, hosted the session that began at 10 PM PST. Within a few minutes, the session smashed all previous records.

According to the official numbers, over half a million people participated in the session, with the highest number of live session listeners crossing the 165,000 number twice.

This Twitter Space with @PTIofficial @ImranKhanPTI currently has 164k+ live listeners

A new @TwitterSpaces record ?https://t.co/pjjeF1oFUo pic.twitter.com/RZ2TISNxqm

— Matt Navarra – Exiting X… Follow me on Threads (@MattNavarra) April 20, 2022

social audio will be huge for politics

the former prime minister of pakistan goes live on spaces:

446K listen live
165K peak
20K set reminders

total stage following: ~23 million pic.twitter.com/o1a7Iau2V3

— morgan — (@morqon) April 20, 2022

 

The session also went live on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube simultaneously, with over 1.3 million people cumulatively interacting with the former premier on social media.

In the Twitter Space session, which came just one day ahead of the much-anticipated Lahore rally, Khan instructed his party workers not to criticize the Pakistan Army.

“Pakistan needs its Army more than it needs Imran Khan,” he said, emphasizing that if it was not for the army, Pakistan would have ceased to exist.

Imran Khan’s live Twitter session was, by far, the most listened to Twitter Space in history. The previous best was K-Pop band GOT7’s BamBam’s Twitter Space that had 44,208 listeners, followed by Vijay’s Birthday Twitter Space with 27,971 attendees, and Salvador Bill Analysis with 26,218 listeners.

Top 3 highest attended Twitter Space globally.

1. #BamBam's Space with 44,208.

2. Celebrate Vijay’s Birthday Twiter Space – 27,971.

3. Salvador Bill Analysis by Nic Carter with 26,218.

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— LetsCinema (@letscinema) June 21, 2021