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Winston

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I'm not sure I buy that Netflix stat. That would mean that about 1/3 of Netflix' 139 million subscribers would be watching at any given one minute....

Does that make sense?
 
Well, the number of people who must be watching to consume over 694,000 hours of TV in one minute can be had by simply multiplying the number by sixty. That yields ~41.7 million.

The number of subscribers came from typing "how many subscribers does Netflix have?" in the search bar of my browser, which did a Google search. The first result said "139 million" and that pointed to a article posted in January. I see now two links further down this story: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/media/netflix-earnings-2019-first-quarter/index.html which says they're up to 148 million now. So maybe ~28% (41.7/148) of Netflix subscribers being on there at any one time is plausible.

Added: this is in response to the question which you posted and then must have changed. As it appeared in my email notification you asked "What's your source of those numbers?"

As for the validity of the numbers in the chart - that's a question best sent to @LoriLewis and @OfficiallyChad, I would think. I won't be doing that. I don't do Twitter.

The rest of the numbers on the chart seem at least plausible to me. It was only the Netflix one that looked out of whack at first. Now....it, too, seems at least possible.
 
Yes I changed response after I saw Twitter names on bottom. But like you I don’t Twitter.
 
The only thing I do is buy online on my home PC. My phone is just a paper weight. To see a vast majority of people with a phone glued to their hands is unreal. I got by just fine without a mobile phone my whole life. A change will not be necessary. Then again, quitting smoking, drinking, drugs, the television, no radio and no papers or subscriptions were simply a rational decision.
 
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