If you convert this to percent changes it's not particularly interesting. - @TuckerCarlson +62,083/5.1M = 1.2% - @JoeRogan +63,313/8.6M = 0.7% - @DonaldJTrum

If you convert this to percent changes it's not particularly interesting. - @TuckerCarlson +62,083/5.1M = 1.2% - @JoeRogan +63,313/8.6M = 0.7% - @DonaldJTrumpJr +87,296/7.7M = 1.1% - @tedcruz +51,405/4.9M = 1% The liberal examples all have lower numbers of people unfollowing and higher numbers of people already following. So all of their changes are less than 1%. Hilary Clinton's change is 0.05%... not particularly wild. So, for starters it's not the mass migration to/from the platform the raw numbers look like. In addition I'm sure there is some relationship to the number of existing followers you have and the rate that you acquire/lose them. That is, it's reasonably to say that the rate you add followers grows until about 10M and then slowly starts to shift to you slowly losing followers as you head back towards an equilibrium point. I doubt that latter explanation really explains these numbers away, but there is a fair bit that I would want to see controlled for before jumping to the "conservatives are rushing towards the platform while liberals flee!" explanation. edit: I do want to clarify, that I don't at all doubt that something is happening. Obviously Twitter going private is going to change the userbase. Just that the raw numbers, at least for me, make the effect seem more much dramatic than it is.