I don’t really get why liberal-leaning users are deleting or deactivating their accounts now, though. But, still, I find this interesting.Ĭonservative-leaning users joining (or re-joining) Twitter in anticipation that under Musk’s ownership, Twitter will be more to their liking makes some sense. To put this in perspective, it’s worth noting that Vice President Harris has 19.6 million followers, so losing 22,500 is about one-tenth of a percent. On average, each account lost 6,062įollowers on April 26th, with the single largest loss from theĪccount of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose follower count Single largest gain went to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whoĪll 50 of the liberal accounts in our dataset lost followersĪcross the same two days.
On April 26th, the conservativeĪccounts in our dataset gained 17,229 followers on average. Unusually large follower gains on April 25th and 26th, while only Out of the 50 conservative accounts in our dataset, 48 made Thousands of followers on April 25th and 26th after a month of Liberal accounts have suffered, collectively losing hundreds of Social Blade shows that in the two days since the deal wasĬompleted, influential conservative accounts have increased theirįollower counts at roughly ten times the average daily rate for Data Suggests That Conservative Twitter Accounts Gained Followers, and Liberal Accounts Lost, After Musk Acquisition Was Announced ★ĭata compiled by The Verge from social media statistics site