Twitter did not provide an exact number of accounts that were shuttered or activated in the hours after the ownership announcement Monday, but it said it was looking into the 'recent fluctuations in follower counts.'
Twitter was flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts’ losing thousands of followers in the hours after news broke that. The company said Tuesday that the “fluctuations in follower counts” came from “organic” account closures.
Greene, who boasted 539,000 followers the day before news of Musk’s takeover, had 632,000 followers by Tuesday evening.hours after the ownership announcement Monday"While we continue to take action on accounts 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,” Twitter said in a statement.
Former President Barack Obama, the most followed user on Twitter, whose number had increased every day in April, lost more than 300,000 followers after Monday’s announcement.
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