An avalanche of ‘Twitterati’ flee the social platform after Elon Musk’s takeover
By Sanjay Maurya
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk shocked everyone. While many are concerned that under his leadership, the network will become a hotbed of hate speech and misinformation, many users have decided to leave after considering Twitter’s fate. Following news that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had bought the famed social network, the platform reportedly saw a “fluctuating number of followers” from “organic” accounts.
Elon Musk effect: Lakhs of users fleeing Twitter and deactivating accountsElon Musk effect: Lakhs of users fleeing Twitter and deactivating accounts
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According to NBC News, once it was announced that Musk will take over Twitter, popular singer Katy Perry lost more than 200,000 followers. According to the given source, former President Barack Obama’s popularity has plummeted by a large margin. It claims that over 300,000 followers have been lost, implying that many people have already left the popular microblogging service.
According to NBC News, the accounts that saw a significant decline in followers were “high-profile” profiles. While Twitter has not shared the exact number of users it may have lost in a single day, it has stated that it is monitoring “fluctuations in follower counts.”
Since news of Musk’s acquisition emerged, the number of followers of prominent right-wing politicians and individuals has skyrocketed. According to NBC News, controversial Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has garnered 100,000 followers since Monday, while Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist has gained 90,000.
All of this raised the question of whether automated accounts were set up to increase the number of followers. Following this, Twitter told NBC News that ‘fluctuations in following counts’ are natural and not automated.
Twitter said in a statement, “While we take action on users that violate our spam policy which can affect follower counts, these fluctuations appear to largely be a result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation.”
Musk suggested in a tweet that Twitter DMs should have end-to-end encryption like Signal so no one can spy on people’s messages or hack them. Musk’s tweet received a mixed response. While some people praised the billionaire’s concept, others chastised him for his purchase. In response to Musk’s tweet, reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong said that Twitter worked on end-to-end encryption for DMs in 2018 but abandoned the project.
Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
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