NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Twitter may have lost 1million authentic users since Elon Musk took over as owner on October 27, according to data compiled by bot trackers.
Over 800,000 accounts have been deactivated since the takeover, and another 500,000 were suspended, according to Christopher Bouzy, who runs the tracker Bot Sentinel.
‘Based on our internal data, we estimate 877,000 Twitter accounts were deactivated, and a further 497,000 were suspended between October 27 and November 1,’ Bouzy said on Twitter. ‘That’s more than double the usual number.’
Bouzy told the MIT Technology Review that they arrived at those numbers by analyzing a small portion of Twitter accounts and determining the percentage of users that deactivated their accounts. They then applied that percentage to the total number of Twitter users – which currently stands at 237million accounts.