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Trump Is Losing Twitter Followers for the First Time in 4 Years
His tirades and election loss have hurt his influence and invited a moment of reflection for all of us.
5 min readDec 15, 2020
There are easier ways to gain Twitter followers than becoming president.
Yet the role certainly helps. You can sneeze and gain a million followers.
Trump launched 10,000 tweets prior to inauguration day. We knew his Twitter would be a wild ride if he won, and he didn’t underdeliver:
He has the most viral Twitter account in history, his tweets garnering north of a billion views a month.
He rode a wave of unparalleled growth, despite his continuing claims that Twitter was silencing conservatives.
Change was on the horizon.
His current behavior is a story of two elections, not one
Many don’t remember that in October of 2016, when Trump thought he’d lose the election, he was ranting about his certainty of voter fraud. In all…
