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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

Left-leaning users leave Twitter in protest at Musk takeover

Mobile phone displaying Elon Musk's Twitter account.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is buying Twitter for $44bn. Photograph: Andrea Ronchini/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock

Hundreds of thousands of Twitter users deactivated their accounts in the days after Elon Musk’s takeover deal, the company says, as prominent users including Katy Perry and Barack Obama lost followers.

Since Monday, some of the social network’s biggest progressive voices have seen their public follower counts decline, while some rightwing Twitter users have gained followers, according to data from the analytics site Social Blade.

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