Elon Musk’s X platform, formerly Twitter, appears to have recently suspended a slew of accounts, causing popular conservative X accounts to experience a large loss in followers. Despite many claiming this purge is aimed at the bot accounts plaguing the platform, multiple complaints of legitimate accounts being suspended have also surfaced.
While it remains unclear why accounts were suspended, many conservatives took to X/Twitter to comment that they have noticed their follower count drop by large numbers. Moreover, the suspended accounts do not appear to have been entirely bots, but also actual users of the social media platform.
“Anyone else lose followers last night? I lost 5,000.” the popular conservative X account Catturd wrote.
Anyone else lose followers last night? I lost 5,000.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) June 26, 2024
“I lost a few thousand. I’m guessing it…