Elon Musk has yet to make any changes to the platform he bought just a few days ago for $44 billion. However, those users who trust the tycoon’s promises have already begun to act. Conservative figures’ Twitter profiles get many new followers since the billionaire acquired the company on April 26th. For their part, celebrity or progressive spokesperson accounts have experienced user loss, according to Blade data compiled by The Verge.
The aforementioned media claims that the most influential conservative Twitter accounts received an average of about 17,229 new subscribers since April 26, about ten times more than the average per day during the month preceding the acquisition. On the other hand, the most popular liberal profiles they lost an average of 6062 subscribers since Twitter announced the purchase of Elon Musk.
From the reports of the right, analyzed The VergeThe largest increase in the number of subscribers since the purchase of Twitter was observed by Republican Ron DeSantis. The current governor of Florida 141,556 new users. On the other side, 22,453 users unfollowed Kamala Harris., Vice President of the United States. It is the liberal profile that has lost the most users since April 26.
The increase in followers on conservative profiles is “organic,” Twitter says.
Influential account data that typically share conservative speeches such as Donald Trump Jr.., also reflect the growth in the number of new subscribers. The businessman, the son of former President Donald Trump, recently posted a tweet showing a screenshot of the number of users who followed him after the Twitter board of directors accepted Elon Musk’s offer.
In the post, Donald Trump Jr. also shared some words that relate to Elon Musk’s “liberation” of Twitter. “Even though I’m amazing and I deserve 87,000 new subscribers per day, it seems that someone removed the shackles from my account. I wonder if the evidence is burned before the arrival of a new administrator, ”said the businessman.
Elon Musk, let’s remember, has been promising for several weeks now to make Twitter a place where any user can freely express his opinion. However, the growth of followers in these conservative profiles and the activation of the right user accounts doesn’t seem to be related to any change in algorithm constraints. As confirmed by the company NBCnews“Subscriber fluctuations” and the activation and deactivation (in the case of progressive profiles) of new accounts after the tycoon announcement is something “organic”.
“While we continue to take action on accounts that violate our spam policy, which could impact subscriber count, these fluctuations appear to be largely the result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation,” it says. in a Twitter statement. average.
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