Paul WhittakerAnd just like that Elon waved his magic wand... and reactivated Tronald Dump's account. Jeez...
AlexaInTheWoods#Trump gained #20m new #followers (real and…less real, I’m sure) in the first 2 hours since #Musk reinstated him this morning
AlexaInTheWoods (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images I took these snapshots this morning 2 hours apart and #Trump gained #20m new #followers (real and…less real) in that timespan 😧. #Musk’s #Twitter vote is working as a charm in boosting support for Trump for his upcoming presidential election campaign. I know Trump has lost a lot of #Republican and #media (#Murdoch) backing…I hope Musk’s PR campaign doesn’t make up for all that. I know I’m stating the obvious but we’ll soon get to witness another level of social media attack on #democracy.
Kevin Kolk@AlexaInTheWoods @daobenlau it’s the account recovery process at work restoring the old followers. He had almost 90M when he was banned. It’s been slowly restoring them. Only 15M voted (on both sides) in the poll. I doubt he’s received even that many new organic followers since.
From my understanding, he had about 80m when they banned him, 30m of which were identified as bots at the time and removed, hence the remaining 50m when he was now reinstated.
I’m very much afraid it may actually be organic growth this time but I’d happily stand to be corrected if that’s not the case 😊.