{"id":1454923,"date":"2022-04-27T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454923"},"modified":"2022-04-27T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:45:27","slug":"conservatives-on-twitter-seeing-huge-spike-in-followers-after-elon-musk-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-on-twitter-seeing-huge-spike-in-followers-after-elon-musk-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives on Twitter Seeing Huge Spike in Followers After Elon Musk Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fconservatives-on-twitter-seeing-huge-spike-in-followers-after-elon-musk-purchase%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=1454923&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><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s as if someone simply flipped a giant magical switch, and everything instantly changed. That\u2019s what\u2019s seemingly happened over at Twitter in the last 24 hours since Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/jenniferoo\/2022\/04\/25\/it-is-finished-twitter-formally-accepts-elon-musks-takeover-bid-n555824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bought the company.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One such change is that conservatives on the social media platform are reporting a massive surge of followers in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While I\u2019m awesome and totally deserving of 87,000 new followers a day it seems that someone took the shackles off my account. Wonder if they\u2019re burning the evidence before new mgmt comes in? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Mso48qyNP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/9Mso48qyNP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1519002011651477511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump Jr<\/a>. added a whopping 87,000 new followers Tuesday, Federalist Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1518946715407106048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Molly Hemingway<\/a> reported a surge of almost 8,000, while podcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1518944115043581952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1518944492166000640%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewsthud.com%2Fconservatives-report-sudden-big-increase-in-followers-following-musk-purchase-of-twitter%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benny Johnson<\/a> gained 20,000. There are many more similar claims, a Twitter search shows.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, liberals are crying that they\u2019re <em>shedding<\/em> followers. Maybe it\u2019s because someone over at \u201cThe Bird\u201d is nuking \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netacea.com\/glossary\/bot-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bot accounts<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is anyone else losing followers too? I&#8217;m seeing people across Twitter report they have lost thousands today. I am down 5,000. Though much of that could be because I&#8217;m an idiot with way too many followers. Idk<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b (@davidhogg111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidhogg111\/status\/1518728084035227648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Change is coming\u2026 no, it\u2019s already here.<\/p>\n<p>Several prominent accounts including <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/04\/25\/tucker-announces-return-to-twitter-today-the-tyrants-are-grieving-n556009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucker Carlson\u2019s<\/a> are back in business. Carlson had been suspended for defending the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Babylon Bee<\/a>, and he refused to take down a post agreeing with the satirical site that transgender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/rachel-levine-a-lethally-incompetent-health-official-now-identifies-as-an-admiral\/ar-AAPQwMV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Rachel Levine<\/a>, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year-is-rachel-levine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was in fact a man<\/a>. That tweet is no longer on his timeline, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/26\/tucker-carlson-and-mark-levin-rejoin-twitter-after-elon-musk-takeover\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Post<\/a>, so it would appear he did delete it.<\/p>\n<p>There have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2022\/04\/26\/big-names-begin-to-reappear-on-twitter-while-others-show-themselves-out-good-riddance-1230330\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conflicting reports<\/a> on whether the Babylon Bee has been allowed to tweet again. Their Twitter page is accessible, but there have been no new posts since March 20.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News contributor and radio host Mark Levin had been boycotting the platform for the last year, but announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marklevinshow\/status\/1518694569780654080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision to re-engage<\/a> Monday, posting \u201cThanks to new ownership, I\u2019ve decided to come back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Truckers for Freedom is also making a comeback and seeing a boost in followers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Friends, it is happening again like the last time. We already have 1000 followers in one hour since we have rejoined twitter! Last time we had the same growth (but not from the first hour!!!) Follow us to support, Elon Musk is with us!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/truckersforfreedom?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#truckersforfreedom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PmmrhVkw6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/PmmrhVkw6g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TruckersForFreedom (@Truckers5Fredom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Truckers5Fredom\/status\/1518677643536781321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump is <em>not<\/em> one of those returning, however, at least for now. As <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bobhoge\/2022\/04\/25\/trump-not-coming-back-to-twitter-will-focus-on-his-own-truth-social-n556037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I wrote Monday<\/a> I\u2019m not buying that, though, and bet he just can\u2019t stay away.\u00a0 My RedState colleague Mike Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/mike_miller\/2022\/04\/26\/despite-trumps-vow-he-wont-return-to-twitter-of-course-he-will-hes-not-going-to-be-able-to-stop-himself-n556232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a>, and as he points out, so do many others.<\/p>\n<p>Why are so many accounts seeing these large increases in followers? It could be because of something called a \u201cshadow ban,\u201d which many users claim that Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bradslager\/2019\/03\/19\/twitter-shadow-bans-evolving-sean-davis-shows-account-just-experienced-n103130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">others employ<\/a>. Twitter claims that the site <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/twitter-denies-conservative-shadow-banning-claims-alters-search\/story?id=56841398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">does not engage in the practice<\/a>, but nobody believes them. Social media planning website <a href=\"https:\/\/socialplanner.io\/blog\/shadowban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SocialPlanner <\/a>describes it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A\u00a0shadowban\u00a0is when a social media user is blocked on a platform but does not notice he or she is banned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, it\u2019s all very murky and the algorithms are all secret, but if some little Twitter nerd doesn\u2019t like your content, they can secretly \u201cthrottle\u201d your visibility. One way to do this is to ensure that your tweets don\u2019t \u201ctrend,\u201d don\u2019t show up in searches, etc. It\u2019s almost more insidious than an outright cancellation because the account holder often isn\u2019t even aware it\u2019s happening. Now that these and other algorithms have apparently changed overnight, posters are seeing dramatic changes to their engagement levels.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">shadow ban council reviewing tweet \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cawjtwc7CW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/cawjtwc7CW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1517716718382166016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the time being, it\u2019s mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/democrats-raise-alarms-republicans-celebrate-twitter-under-elon-musk\/ar-AAWCI7e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservatives celebrating<\/a> the new Musk era, while <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/04\/26\/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-bears-delicious-fruit-as-woketivist-freakout-commences-n556164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">libs are crying in their milk<\/a> that free speech might be making a return on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is clear: The Musk purchase of Twitter is a game-changer, but I think few if any saw such dramatic change occurring literally <em>overnight<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s as if someone simply flipped a giant magical switch, and everything instantly changed. That\u2019s what\u2019s seemingly happened over at Twitter in the last 24 hours since Elon Musk bought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1454923","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\/1454923","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}