Jon Levine
Trump superfans are heading for
the exits.
Just hours after President
Trump was permanently banned from Twitter, his diehards on the platform vowed they would move on
as well.
“Goodbye Twitter” trended
during the early morning hours Saturday as people continued to come to grips
with the leader of the free world being deplatformed.
“Goodbye Twitter friends. See
you @parler,” said one user, citing a more pro free speech social media alternative to Twitter
that is popular with conservatives.
“I’m a small MAGA account and
I have lost 400 followers in 3 days. Goodbye Twitter. You don’t want me, I
don’t want you. I’m at Parler @snakeoil. I hope PATRIOTS will come join
me! Flag of United States.” said another unhappy user.
Moments after Trump was dumped, the website for Parler crashed, likely as a result of a crush of new users overwhelming their servers. The outage lasted less than an hour. Even before recent tumult, Parler had become a popular spot for conservatives, with more than 2 million daily active users in October, according to CNN.
Multiple high profile
conservative-leaning and pro-Trump accounts have reported suddenand unexplained drops in follower count.
“Now, down nearly 29,000. I
think about 1500 of that came slowly between election and early January, when I
was writing that results showed Biden victory and Trump legal options
narrowing, then finished. Angered some followers. But big, precipitous drop has
come in recent hours,” said conservative columnist Byron York.
Ryan Fournier, founder of
Students for Trump, said he was off by 60,000 over a three day period.
The topic was also a subject
of conversation for platform lefties, who said they were happy to see pro-Trump
accounts go.
“Trump supporters really
trended “goodbye twitter”?? as if we cared, god they’re so embarassing [sic],” said one.
In a statement, Twitter
confirmed they are also purging accounts without verified ID information,
which is likely adding to the exit count.
“As part of our work to
protect the integrity of the conversation on Twitter, we regularly challenge
accounts to confirm account details such as email and phone number. Until the
accounts confirm additional account information, they are in a locked state and
do not count towards follower counts,” a spokesperson told The Post.
Jon Levine, New York Post, 9-1-2021
Também andei pensando em deixar o Twitter... mas concluí, presunçosamente, que seria menos uma gota num oceano que, mais do que nunca, se quer (é obrigatório) ENORME e PROFUNDO.
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