Rich Elon Musk “owns” Twitter for only one day (technically the transaction is still in progress), but users have already confirmed the platform change.
Of particular note is that many users have seen a sharp change in the number of followers. Singer Katy Perry lost more than 200,000 followers and former President Barack Obama lost more than 300,000 followers after Musk announced that he had hijacked Twitter, according to NBC News. Actor Mark Hamill tweeted about it on Tuesday.
On the other hand, the right-wing politician seems to be a member of the Diet. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are skyrocketing:
Of course, this is a mysterious “shadow ban” rule that has changed from Twitter banning bot accounts (that is, creating fake automatic accounts to increase someone’s followers). In theory, Twitter is secretly curbing certain accounts to make them less popular). But according to Twitter, none of this is true.
“We continue to take steps against accounts that violate our spam policy and may affect follower numbers, but these fluctuations are primarily due to increased new account creation and deactivation. I think, “Twitter told NBC News.
This can be interpreted as people leaning to the left in the political spectrum leaving the platform joining (or re-joining) Twitter, affecting the number of followers, especially followers from well-known accounts (” As a record, I didn’t see any significant changes in the number of followers).
Twitter didn’t provide accurate numbers explaining what was happening, but the company told NBC that it was investigating the issue.