SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 ― Key figures on the American left, Barack Obama among them, have shed thousands of followers since Elon Musk's planned purchase of Twitter emerged, while numbers have soared for right-wing politicians.
Promises to leave the platform trended under hashtags such as #LeaveTwitter. Within hours, many appeared to be following through. Greene, a vocal ally of former president Donald Trump whose personal profile was banned by the platform, praised the acquisition. Twitter on Tuesday told AFP that while they were monitoring the situation, the fluctuations appeared to be organic and largely due to new accounts being created and existing ones deactivated.“It's strange to see a loss of some 35,000 followers overnight,” the Auschwitz Memorial account posted Tuesday. The profile, which has 1.3 million followers, tweets photos and stories of concentration camp victims.
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