Maybe now they know how conservatives on Twitter feel.
After a final deal was announced Monday about billionaire Elon Musk buying Twitter, a slew of liberals came out to bemoan lost followers.
“Just lost 2000 followers. Anyone else losing followers?” Neera Tanden, a Biden nominee who withdrew and longtime supporter of Hillary Clinton, wrote on Twitter.
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Just lost 2000 followers. Anyone else losing followers?
&mdash; Neera Tanden🌻 (@neeratanden) <a href="https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1518718919242133504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
Gun control activist David Hogg joined in the sobfest, saying, &#8220;Oh I thought it was just some really bad takes I posted but guess I’m not alone -3000 today.&#8221;
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Oh I thought it was just some really bad takes I posted but guess I&#39;m not alone -3000 today
&mdash; David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1518726536437764096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill retweeted Tanden’s tweet, adding: “I just lost more than 8,000 followers in the last couple of hours. Was it something I said?&#8221;
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Weird. I just lost more than 8,000 followers in the last couple of hours. Was it something I said? <a href="https://t.co/TS3vwDephc">https://t.co/TS3vwDephc</a>
&mdash; Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1518724468406767616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
Another Twitter user, Christopher Bouzy, wrote: &#8220;Exclusive: Over the past 24 hours, Democrats have experienced a significant decrease in followers, while Republicans have experienced a significant increase in followers&#8230;&#8221; He posted a chart not on liberals but only former President Barack Obama, which showed he lost roughly 5,000 of his 131 million followers.
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🤖Exclusive: Over the past 24 hours, Democrats have experienced a significant decrease in followers, while Republicans have experienced a significant increase in followers&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/jOg0or4bKS">pic.twitter.com/jOg0or4bKS</a>
&mdash; Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) <a href="https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1518953731961802752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
“I’m down about the same (proportionately) &#8211; around 1800. Can’t tell if it’s dead bots or people afraid that Elon will find out they were following me,” former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tweeted.
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I&#39;m down about the same (proportionately) &#8211; around 1800. Can&#39;t tell if it&#39;s dead bots or people afraid that Elon will find out they were following me
&mdash; Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1518726296494292995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
The social media site is overrun with bots. Way back in 2017, CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/10/nearly-48-million-twitter-accounts-could-be-bots-says-study.html">reported</a> that &#8220;as many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren’t people.&#8221; But Musk plans to change that. Last week, he tweeted: &#8220;If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!&#8221;
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If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215066550116354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
Conservatives are well aware of how Twitter limits their accounts. The social media giant can “shadow-ban” accounts, which means their posts don&#8217;t even appear on their followers newsfeeds. Plus, Twitter can simply purge an account&#8217;s followers and censor any content they choose by labeling it &#8220;hate speech” or “harassment.”
Other Twitter users claimed liberals&#8217; plunging numbers were simply people shutting down accounts over Musk&#8217;s acquisition.
&#8220;Its [sic] people leaving because of Elon most likely,&#8221; one user <a href="https://twitter.com/shouxing3/status/1518810447419363329">wrote</a>.
Others speculated that Twitter was purging bots as part of the sale.
&#8220;Its [sic] a bot purge. They have to do some due diligence for the sale. I bet having millions of fake accounts will be a problem so they are deleting,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1518742818822496259">wrote</a> one user.
&#8220;However, largely missing from the list of users complaining about a loss of Twitter followers were conservative and right-wing accounts. In fact, a number of users in this group actually gained followers in the last 24 hours,&#8221; Fortune magazine <a href="https://fortune.com/2022/04/26/twitter-accounts-left-losing-followers-right-gaining-musk-buyout-sealed/">reported</a>. &#8220;While users like Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez all lost more than 10,000 followers overnight, according to data from social media analytics tracker SocialBlade, conservatives like Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, and Laura Ingraham all gained.&#8221;
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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