Ever since Twitter announced its sale to Elon Musk, public figures have been seeing wild fluctuations in their follower counts on the platform
SocialBlade data from the top 50 conservative and progressive Twitter accounts, and found that conservative accounts increased their follower counts ten times their usual daily rates, while popular progressive accounts collectively lost hundreds of thousands of followers.
Twitter released a statement saying that the fluctuations appeared to be organic. “We’ve been looking into recent fluctuations in follower counts. While we continue to take action on accounts that violate our spam policy which can affect follower counts, these fluctuations appear to largely have been a result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation,” the statement read.” We’ll continue looking into these follower count fluctuations.
In the days leading up to the deal’s approval, many Twitter users unhappy with Musk’s rhetoric threatened to quit the platform should he take control of it; #RIPTwitter trended on Tuesday. The data appears to suggest that many of these users followed through on their promises.
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