Twitter on Tuesday confirmed that the dramatic fluctuations in the number of followers since Elon Musk's takeover was announced was organic, and not due to any change in their policies - as right wingers online noted a surge in followers, and left-leaning figures saw their numbers plummet.
Among the biggest winners was Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, who on Tuesday accumulated 141,566 new followers to his two million tally.
The biggest losers included New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with 12.9 million - who saw her followers drop by 20,725.
Barack Obama, who tops the Twitter global leaderboard with 131.7 million followers, also saw a drop, with 5,063 fewer followers than before Musk's announcement.
'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.
A spokesperson at Twitter told NBC News that the accounts with the most severe drop-offs in followers were 'high-profile accounts.
'While I'm awesome and totally deserving of 87,000 new followers a day it seems that someone took the shackles off my account.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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