{"id":1454343,"date":"2022-04-26T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454343"},"modified":"2022-04-26T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:44:59","slug":"conservative-twitter-accounts-explode-with-new-followers-increased-engagement-after-musk-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-twitter-accounts-explode-with-new-followers-increased-engagement-after-musk-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Twitter Accounts Explode With New Followers, Increased Engagement After Musk Announcement"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fconservative-twitter-accounts-explode-with-new-followers-increased-engagement-after-musk-announcement%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=1454343&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\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-187254774-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The same day Elon Musk announced he had reached an agreement with Twitter to purchase the company for $44 billion, conservative users reported they began seeing large increases in their follower counts and engagement.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most significant factors motivating Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter was his concern over censorship and speech suppression on the platform. Throughout the last two weeks as he\u2019s pressed his bid to purchase the company, he\u2019s indicated that that one of his top priorities will be reversing heavy-handed content-moderation policies and lifting algorithms that may be unfairly targeting some tweets and accounts based on their political views.<\/p>\n<p>Shifts on Twitter from Monday afternoon into Tuesday morning suggest that now that the Tesla CEO has a formal deal with Twitter, the social media giant may have already begun taking steps to address these concerns behind the scenes. \u201cAnyone else feel like the algorithm that suppressed accounts\/speech that Twitter didn\u2019t like got removed today,\u201d comedian and conservative columnist Tim Young <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRunsHisMouth\/status\/1518814855574302720?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">asked<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>According to Christopher Bouzy, founder of the social media analytics platform Bot Sentinel, Florida\u2019s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbouzy\/status\/1518953733262041090?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">gained<\/a> nearly 100,000 followers following Musk\u2019s announcement. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbouzy\/status\/1518956619727577089?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">both up<\/a> more than 50,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can understand Left-leaning accounts deciding to close their accounts after the Elon Musk news, but why the sudden significant increase in Republican followers? This is not normal,\u201d Bouzy said, later <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbouzy\/status\/1518954078591664128?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">adding<\/a>, \u201cI really would like a Twitter spokesperson to explain this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other popular accounts from the right side of the political spectrum also anecdotally reported a huge increase in their followership. Conservative rapper Zuby <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZubyMusic\/status\/1518932935285616640?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">said<\/a> he gained 11,000 followers in less than 24 hours and that his posts are experiencing a much higher degree of engagement. \u201cIt\u2019s been a LONG TIME since one of my tweets was \u2018allowed\u2019 to reach 100k likes. My account has been throttled for 2 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, accounts of many known liberals began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/liberals-bemoan-lost-twitter-followers-after-musk-takeover\">experiencing<\/a> a massive loss of followers. Star Wars actor Mark Hamill <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkHamill\/status\/1518724468406767616?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">reported<\/a> a drop of 8,000 after Twitter and Musk reached an agreement. Biden advisor Neera Tanden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neeratanden\/status\/1518718919242133504?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">said<\/a> she lost 2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Bouzy\u2019s statistical analysis shows the accounts of a number of high-profile Democrat leaders began shrinking as well. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbouzy\/status\/1518953731961802752?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">lost<\/a> 13,000 followers, while Senators Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren were down <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbouzy\/status\/1518953731961802752?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">11,000<\/a> and 17,000, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The disparity also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbouzy\/status\/1518967999440510976?s=20&#038;t=X8gbw1CMb1kkdgk4wZ6DFQ\">carried over<\/a> into the media sphere with Fox News personalities gaining followers while MSNBC anchors lost them.<\/p>\n<p>Bot Sentinel monitors more than 2.5 million Twitter accounts, and Bouzy says his system checks the status of each one every day at 12 a.m. eastern. He told The Daily Wire they\u2019re now analyzing DeSantis\u2019 newly acquired followers to try to determine what the cause of the enormous shifts might be. \u201cIt\u2019s not something we have seen before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached to Twitter to ask about the cause of the massive swings in followers and engagement and did not receive a response.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <\/em><em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/utm.io\/ueuP8\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a><\/u><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same day Elon Musk announced he had reached an agreement with Twitter to purchase the company for $44 billion, conservative users reported they began seeing large increases in their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":1480555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}