Posted on 07/12/2018 8:27:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former President Obama lost more than 2 million followers on Twitter this week as the social platform removed inactive and locked accounts from follower counts, according to a preliminary review by The Hill.
Obama, who had 104 million Twitter followers prior to the crackdown, had roughly 101 million as of Thursday afternoon. Still, the former president remains the third most-followed person on the platform behind Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.
President Trump, who had 53.4 million Twitter followers before the platform began pulling accounts from follower lists this week, had 53.1 million followers as of Thursday afternoon. Trump remains the 18th most-followed person on Twitter.
The drop in Twitter followers came after the platform formally announced on Wednesday that it would begin the process of removing locked accounts from follower counts in an effort "to build trust and encourage healthy conversation on Twitter."
Twitter said the accounts are locked after the platform detects sudden changes in account behavior, which includes tweeting out a large number of unsolicited replies, sharing links that are misleading or being blocked by a large number of users that have been mentioned by the account.
A Twitter spokesperson declined to provide comment on Thursday.
the POTUS account simply switched to Trump at Inauguration Time
No, if we could have done that he would have never been elected.
When he gets down to about 30 Million you will know that twitters gotten good at detecting and removing fake accounts.
Impressive for a guy who probably doesn’t even know how to post on twitter or any other social platform. My guess is that if you said ‘copy a to b’ he wouldn’t have clue as to what you were referring to.
To be honest, after Trump we slowly go backwards to 2015, I’m afraid. Trump has put some spine in Republicans in congress. That will go away. Very sad.
I also think it’s possible that DJT will say he’s basically got us back on track and Pence can carry on after 2020. In other words, he’ll be in for one term.
I’ve noticed that with other accounts I’ve followed. Lots of fake followers on twitter.
Not what I heard him say, he already is referring to his second term frequently. He knows how long things take to change and coming more from the business side of the world this is not a lark for him, this is a lifes work, a legacy
I understand that and can’t dismiss it.
Something satisfying seeing "obama" and "crack" in the same sentence...
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