USA: More than 1.3 million users left Twitter in the week following the purchase of the social media platform by Elon Musk for US$44 billion. According to a report by MIT Technology Review, the company Bot Sentinel.
Which monitors behavior on Twitter by examining more than 3.1 million accounts and their daily activity, "believes that between October 27 and November 1, approximately 877,000 accounts were deactivated and 497,000 were suspended."
According to the report, this is more than double the normal number. “We have seen an increase in people deactivating their accounts and Twitter suspending accounts,” Christopher Bouzy, founder of Bot Sentinel, told the publication.
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He continued by saying that he and the bot arrived at Sentinel figures by looking at the percentage of users whose accounts were inactive or suspended after Musk became CEO, and then increased that percentage to an estimated 237. Million multiplied by "monetizable daily active". , Users" who make up all Twitter.
"Twitter usage at an all-time high," Musk tweeted Monday night. He then tweeted in response to himself, "I hope the servers haven't melted." According to an MIT Technology Review report, between October 27 and November 1, Bot Sentinel found that 11,535 accounts they were tracking had been deactivated (someone had locked their account).
Additionally, 6,824 accounts were suspended, which occurs when Twitter deletes accounts for reasons such as inactivity, impersonation or breaking site policies, according to the report.
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In the week before Musk's purchase of Twitter, 5,958 accounts were suspended or deactivated, indicating a more than 200 percent increase in account losses in the days following the transaction.
According to Bouzy, "We think the increase in account inactivity is due to people choosing to deactivate their accounts in protest of the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk.
The world's richest man had offered to buy the social media company in April. Twitter needs to be turned into a private company, according to Musk, who said this in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the time. Twitter has immense potential. I'll open it.
After months of hiatus and legal wrangling, he bought the social media site on October 27. Since then, he has fired about half of Twitter's staff and admitted that advertisers are leaving the website.
A new version of the Twitter iOS app mentions a US$7.99 subscription service called Twitter Blue that includes Blue Tick and will soon be "half ads and much better" in addition to allowing users to post longer videos. The company also revealed that its identity verification system is about to become a subscription service.
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Responding to Twitter users on Saturday, Musk said that an Android update is in the works. He added that current verified users with the blue checkmark will not lose their verification for "a few months".