Fortune is among a number of mainstream news sources reporting today that, “A day after Elon Musk sealed the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, prominent users on the platform have been seeing wild swings in their follower accounts.
… a flood of other prominent, blue-ticked users came forward with the same complaint. Senior adviser and staff secretary to President Joe Biden Neera Tanden, gun control activist David Hogg, and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill all tweeted out that they had lost several thousand followers since the deal was announced.
However, largely missing from the list of users complaining about a loss of Twitter followers were conservative and right-wing accounts. In fact, a number of users in this group actually gained followers in the last 24 hours.
While users like Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all lost more than 10,000 followers overnight, according to data from social media analytics tracker SocialBlade, conservatives like Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, and Laura Ingraham gained ….
Speculation, data samples can be found in feature article posted by Sophie Mellor this morning, titled, “Big Twitter accounts on the left are losing followers and those on the right are gaining since the Musk buyout was sealed.”