Post APrDcNLEmgkx1hLhmC by filippo@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #APrDcK7ekj6t2hyJgu by filippo@mastodon.social
       2022-11-21T01:53:41Z
       
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       According to analytics.twitter.com I lost ~350 followers in the last 28 days.I am seeing some people saying it's all bots being cleaned up, so I decided to diff my listfollowers.com dumps that are ~50h apart.These don't look like bots. I'll post stats in a moment.
       
 (DIR) Post #APrDcL21NACFrWLKXw by filippo@mastodon.social
       2022-11-21T02:29:35Z
       
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       In the last 50h I lost 206 followers on Twitter. 0.4% of the total.From a random sample, 1/10 unfollowed me, 1/10 unfollowed everyone, 8/10 deactivated. (Didn't bother with the Twitter API.)58% had more than 100 followers. 49% had more than 1000 tweets. 83% had no numbers in their username. 98% were older than a year, 74% older than five years."Elon is cleaning up the bots" does not seem to hold as a hypothesis. People are definitely leaving Twitter.
       
 (DIR) Post #APrDcNLEmgkx1hLhmC by filippo@mastodon.social
       2022-11-21T02:37:55Z
       
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       I don't ordinarily track unfollows, because people are welcome to do what they wish with their attention and should not feel bad about it.I collected these stats because some people argued that it's Elon Musk cleaning up bots, which is ludicrous but also easily disproved.