Conservative Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected

[RockaFowler]

Poor babies

https://gizmodo.com/conservative-twitter-users-lose-thousands-of-followers-1823185428

Twitter suspended thousands of accounts overnight and conservatives on the platform aren’t happy about it. Twitter has yet to make a public statement about the issue, but right-wing users believe that they’re being targeted in a mass purge of suspected Russian bot accounts.

Conservative Twitter has even started a hashtag called #TwitterLockOut to talk about the purge, with some claiming that real people (as opposed to bots) were locked out of their accounts. Gizmodo has so far been unable to confirm that any real people have had their accounts mistakenly suspended.

Everyone from well known figures of the alt-right, like neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, to people with Twitter handles like @Isa4031AMP, @DonofJustice, and @Patriotsavior seem to have been impacted by the move—at least when it comes to their follower counts.

You should see some of the people complaining about it. "I lost 4000 followers". No dipshit, you lost BOTs!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. How many did Trump lose!

[Wounded Bear]

3. That will be the fun number...

[RockaFowler]

4. He has 48 Million

And Barack Obama has 100 Million

I think he lost a few

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R

[GaryM]

5. So many thoughts come to mind

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Have white nationalists always been considered “conservatives”? That is kind of a new perspective for me.

Conservatives seem to want to be lied to by the media they consume. The truth is unfairly biased against their views. When ever I hear them complain that prefer more conservative news, I can’t help but hear them confirming that.


Here is another article
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-21/conservative-twitter-users-lash-out-over-disappearing-followers

[LeftInTX]

6. The Bots are still out in full force

Twitter is gonna have a full time job keeping them in check.

I went to Sean Hannity's and new bots are popping up every second.
Same with Trump's and Obama's.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Of those thousands of "friends" they have, they find they are ony left with their mother and aunt.

[yonder]

8. waaaah, boo hoo

"with some claiming that real people (as opposed to bots) were locked out of their accounts." yeah, maybe. twitter ain't voting.

And it's crickets from those same folks, when REAL PEOPLE are prevented from having their voice counted at election time.

[UCmeNdc]

10. K&R

[Stonepounder]

11. Someone claimed that Sean Hannity lost around 300-400K followers.

[muntrv]

12. .....

[NurseJackie]

13. I'm sure Jill Stein (and others) noticed a drop in their followers too.