Bobby Burack
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If you’ve had a chance to check your Twitter followers this morning, your ego is probably damaged. Oh, unless you’ve been retweeting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, CNN, and Mike Florio. In that case, your popularity is surging.
Since the middle of the week, Republican politicians, conservative media personalities, and a variety of right-leaning accounts have claimed they are losing Twitter followers at the same rate ESPN lost viewers after High Noon‘s debut.
Take a look:
I'm not sure if this is due to mass-nuking of conservative accounts by Twitter, conservatives leaving the platform voluntarily in protest of the Trump ban, or some combination of both, but accounts with large conservative followers are seeing a massive plunge in follower counts: pic.twitter.com/I7sC8WNnRj
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 9, 2021
So I have actually lost 30k followers in 4 hours? Is that even possible? Parler iced? Is this to please @JoeBiden? Does he know what Twitter is ?
— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) January 9, 2021
Twitter, the “public forum” for free speech, has deleted 15,000 followers from my account in the last few hours.
There is no point engaging in a national conversation on a “forum” that is in actual fact a propaganda organ.
God bless America.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 7, 2021
Just to add to the chorus, I’ve lost about 5,000 followers. It’s clear that Twitter is wiping out conservative accounts. That’s why your follower counts are going down. This is the biggest purge we’ve seen, and not the last.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 8, 2021
🚨🚨🚨@Twitter is already purging followers from conservative accounts!
Over the last few days, we lost over 5K followers.
Visit https://t.co/kSTinFJEDh, download our mobile app, and follow us on Parler to make sure you never miss an update! pic.twitter.com/PxI45fQrz0
— PragerU (@prageru) January 8, 2021
7K+ for me in two days… pic.twitter.com/uwkrvaJJTf
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 8, 2021
Twitter says it routinely deletes and/or suspends spam accounts. Per Twitter’s support page, it regularly “challenges accounts to confirm details like email and phone number.” If neither is provided, Twitter says “these accounts aren’t included in follower counts.”
That doesn’t sound politically-driven — as long as you are convinced that users who fail to provide the mandatory information only follow one political party. If don’t believe that, you might question the following numbers:
This is how you create an echo chamber… pic.twitter.com/aPDA37qKS0
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) January 9, 2021
Kamala Harris added nearly 100,000 followers, wow.
To recap the week online, Twitter banned Trump, Google removed Parler from its app store, Apple is threatening to ban Parler, conservative accounts are losing thousands of followers, and Nancy Pelosi emerged as a Twitter star.
Happy Saturday.
Anyone using Twitter, watches CNN, MSNBC or ESPN is either a full blown Liberal or a closet Liberal. Could care less if this offends anyone.
Agreed 100%.
Twitter suspended my account for 24 hours about a year ago, so I deleted them and haven’t been back. Twitter is little more than a sewer, like Facebook.
Yeah, I deleted my Twitter account about 8 months ago and my Facebook account 2 years ago. You Tube suspended me and it’s still suspended for the past 2 months.
Within 6 months, Twitter will be a liberal echo chamber. Hey Jack, your advertisers aren’t going to be very happy.
Nothing but a cesspool
Just read that Parler has jumped to the no 1 most downloaded app.
If you do go to Parler. This is my profile.
Almost all of Parler is political right now but I hope with more people using it that it will become more well rounded.
https://parler.com/profile/Sportsbetting/posts
Followed you on there, while we still have Parler. I’m @JoeA1010
Let Twitter die. They’re committing suicide. Don’t get angry about it; use the alternatives like Parler, Minds and Gab. Let capitalism fucking work, instead of bashing your heads in on the Twitter walls. They’re not going to change. Ever. LET THEM SUICIDE.
Hear hear!
Indeed.
There’s Gab out there.
Besides the minute the liberal echo chamber is in power they’ll either start eating each other or head to the more ‘conservative’ sites to find their enemies again. They just can’t stand not being offended or trying to be cancel culture.
Talk about a conspiracy.
Apple, Google and now Amazon are all removing Paler within 24 hours of each other.
Amazon is kicking them off of their servers to essentially shut the site down.
This is why Twitter felt free to kick conservatives off of Twitter.
Anti trust laws maybe?
Republicans could have done something about this when they were in charge, but alas, too many have been bought off by the tech giants that nothing would have happened to them.
Exactly, John. They completely failed us. If we think Mitch McConnell and his ilk are on our side, we’re sadly mistaken.
It’s Twitter. Who gives a shit. It’s a millennial, leftist platform where a small minority of users make a bunch of noise and insult people all day. If that’s your thing, great. If not, ignore it.
just wait until the WH account suddenly has 100 million followers on Jan 21st.
what is the betting line for Biden’s resignation … or will we have a co-potus situation?
i gotta get back to the game now. i don’t wanna miss anymore lamar jackson highlights, because steve levy says he is the best athlete to ever play the game. Yawnnnnn