According to Bot Sentinel, which checks and analyses Twitter accounts, 877,000 accounts were terminated and 497,000 were suspended between October 27 and November 1.
This is about twice the typical amount of cancelled and suspended accounts. In the week before Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, just 5,958 accounts were cancelled or suspended, indicating a 208% surge in the aftermath of the transaction.
According to Sensortower statistics, between October 27 and November 7, after the transaction was completed, Twitter was downloaded 7.6 million times from the App Store and Google Play.
Although not as large as corporations often included under the “big tech” umbrella, Twitter’s appeal as a key mode of communication among politicians, entertainers, and other public figures is – and has nearly always been – unequalled.
