Twitter Loses More Than a Million Users, Over Half a Million Suspended Since Elon Musk Takeover (Report)
There’s a new report about Twitter‘s active user base ever since Elon Musk‘s takeover of the platform on October 27, and it looks like the social media site is losing users rapidly.
According to the firm Bot Sentinel, which tracks inauthentic behavior on Twitter by analyzing accounts, around 877,000 accounts were deactivated and 497,000 were suspended between October 27 and November 1 – more than double the usual number, via MIT Technology Review.
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“We have observed an uptick in people deactivating their accounts and also Twitter suspending accounts,” says Christopher Bouzy, Bot Sentinel’s founder.
The data was analyzed by looking at who had deactivated their accounts or been suspended after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, and then applying that percentage to Twitter’s overall user base, around 237 million “monetizable daily active users.”
In the week before he acquired Twitter, only 5,958 accounts were deactivated or suspended, suggesting a 208% increase in account losses in the days after his takeover.
“We believe the uptick in deactivations is a result of people upset with Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and deciding to deactivate their accounts in protest,” the founder concluded.
“We also believe the increase in suspensions is from Twitter taking action on accounts purposely violating Twitter’s rules to see if they can push the limits of ‘free speech,’” he adds.
There’s also an indication that users are now migrating to other social media platforms.
“There seems to be indeed an attempt from many to migrate to other platforms, such as Mastodon,” Manoel Ribeiro, an academic at EPFL Lausanne in Switzerland, noted.
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