{"id":1454098,"date":"2022-04-26T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454098"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:44:39","slug":"liberals-bemoan-lost-twitter-followers-after-musk-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberals-bemoan-lost-twitter-followers-after-musk-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Bemoan Lost Twitter Followers After Musk Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberals-bemoan-lost-twitter-followers-after-musk-takeover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454098&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/01\/mh-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Maybe now they know how conservatives on Twitter feel.<\/p>\n<p>After a final deal was announced Monday about billionaire Elon Musk buying Twitter, a slew of liberals came out to bemoan lost followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust lost 2000 followers. Anyone else losing followers?\u201d Neera Tanden, a Biden nominee who withdrew and longtime supporter of Hillary Clinton, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just lost 2000 followers.  Anyone else losing followers?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neera Tanden\ud83c\udf3b (@neeratanden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neeratanden\/status\/1518718919242133504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gun control activist David Hogg joined in the sobfest, saying, \u201cOh I thought it was just some really bad takes I posted but guess I\u2019m not alone -3000 today.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh I thought it was just some really bad takes I posted but guess I&#8217;m not alone -3000 today<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b (@davidhogg111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidhogg111\/status\/1518726536437764096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cStar Wars\u201d actor Mark Hamill retweeted Tanden\u2019s tweet, adding: \u201cI just lost more than 8,000 followers in the last couple of hours. Was it something I said?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Weird. I just lost more than 8,000 followers in the last couple of hours. Was it something I said? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TS3vwDephc\">https:\/\/t.co\/TS3vwDephc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkHamill\/status\/1518724468406767616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another Twitter user, Christopher Bouzy, wrote: \u201cExclusive: Over the past 24 hours, Democrats have experienced a significant decrease in followers, while Republicans have experienced a significant increase in followers\u2026\u201d He posted a chart not on liberals but only former President Barack Obama, which showed he lost roughly 5,000 of his 131 million followers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd16Exclusive: Over the past 24 hours, Democrats have experienced a significant decrease in followers, while Republicans have experienced a significant increase in followers\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jOg0or4bKS\">pic.twitter.com\/jOg0or4bKS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbouzy\/status\/1518953731961802752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m down about the same (proportionately) \u2013 around 1800. Can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s dead bots or people afraid that Elon will find out they were following me,\u201d former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m down about the same  (proportionately) \u2013 around 1800. Can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;s dead bots or people afraid that Elon will find out they were following me<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithOlbermann\/status\/1518726296494292995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The social media site is overrun with bots. Way back in 2017, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/03\/10\/nearly-48-million-twitter-accounts-could-be-bots-says-study.html\">reported<\/a> that \u201cas many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren\u2019t people.\u201d But Musk plans to change that. Last week, he tweeted: \u201cIf our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1517215066550116354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conservatives are well aware of how Twitter limits their accounts. The social media giant can \u201cshadow-ban\u201d accounts, which means their posts don\u2019t even appear on their followers newsfeeds. Plus, Twitter can simply purge an account\u2019s followers and censor any content they choose by labeling it \u201chate speech\u201d or \u201charassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Twitter users claimed liberals\u2019 plunging numbers were simply people shutting down accounts over Musk\u2019s acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts [sic] people leaving because of Elon most likely,\u201d one user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shouxing3\/status\/1518810447419363329\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others speculated that Twitter was purging bots as part of the sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts [sic] a bot purge. They have to do some due diligence for the sale. I bet having millions of fake accounts will be a problem so they are deleting,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FPWellman\/status\/1518742818822496259\">wrote<\/a> one user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, 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,\u201d Fortune magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/04\/26\/twitter-accounts-left-losing-followers-right-gaining-musk-buyout-sealed\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cWhile users like Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandra 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 all gained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. 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