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High-profile Republicans gain followers in first weeks of Musk’s reign
WaPo via MSN ^ | NOVEMBER 28 2022 | Gerrit De Vynck, Jeremy B. Merrill,

Posted on 11/28/2022 3:35:28 AM PST by SmokingJoe

High-profile Republican members of Congress gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers in the first few weeks of Elon Musk’s reign over the social media network, while their Democratic counterparts experienced a decline, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) all lost about 100,000 Twitter followers in the first three weeks of Musk’s ownership of Twitter, while Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio) gained more than 300,000 each.

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Sanity gradually returning to Twitter,
1 posted on 11/28/2022 3:35:28 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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Sanity is returning because the algorithms are being turned off.


2 posted on 11/28/2022 3:37:32 AM PST by BRL
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To: BRL

And the Chinese bots are being shut down, perhaps.


3 posted on 11/28/2022 3:39:18 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: SmokingJoe
#NobodyLikesDemocrats


4 posted on 11/28/2022 3:40:06 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: SmokingJoe

Chances are they were there all along but were being restricted.

I’ve heard a couple of guests on Greg Gutfelds show state that since Elon took over their followers have jumped by tens of thousands......that’s not coincidence.


5 posted on 11/28/2022 3:40:24 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: SmokingJoe

No more shadow bans and bots. Thanks for the confirmation, WiPo!


6 posted on 11/28/2022 3:44:06 AM PST by Rastus
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Amazing how that happened innit? Its almost as if somebody had their finger on the scales before wiping out followers for Republicans and boosting Democrats.


7 posted on 11/28/2022 3:44:12 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: SmokingJoe

What kind of person follows Liz Warren?


8 posted on 11/28/2022 3:46:42 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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Crazed cat ladies who have prepaid for Volume 2 of Pow Wow Chow?


9 posted on 11/28/2022 4:03:31 AM PST by oldvirginian (When I was a kid I wanted to be older…this is not what I expected)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Yep. Many dim followers were bots or individuals with multiple accounts


10 posted on 11/28/2022 4:19:34 AM PST by Josa
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. NEVER FORGET WHAT HE SAID NOR HOW THEY DELIVERED IT ! .
11 posted on 11/28/2022 4:41:13 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: bagster

Democrats think they are the majority but they are not.


12 posted on 11/28/2022 4:53:37 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: SmokingJoe

The bots are no longer skewing the data.


13 posted on 11/28/2022 4:57:53 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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And we’re supposed to believe that the democrats won the elections????


14 posted on 11/28/2022 5:00:52 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: outpostinmass2

——What kind of person follows Liz Warren?


A residual Massachusetts loyalist


15 posted on 11/28/2022 5:01:24 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: outpostinmass2

Someone with high cheekbones.


16 posted on 11/28/2022 5:31:57 AM PST by EEGator
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To: SmokingJoe

No wonder the Dems want to regulate Twitter.


17 posted on 11/28/2022 5:36:32 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas is available on Barnes and Noble )
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To: SmokingJoe

The immediate change would appear to be algorithms. There should be another surge from when they let people back on.


18 posted on 11/28/2022 5:40:53 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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"Reign"? DNC stoogery leaks through.

19 posted on 11/28/2022 5:57:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Twitter is just displaying followers these people already had.

Man, leftists are stupid.


20 posted on 11/28/2022 6:37:59 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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