Courtesy of Metro:I've lost close to 1,000 followers offer the past few hours.— Richard 🐉 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) February 21, 2018
Major purge underway.
Today, our thoughts and prayers are with the #MAGA brigade, as they howl in despair after half their Twitter followers vanished overnight.
The reason? Those ‘cruel leftist libs’ at Twitter just purged a load of Russian bots, it seems – leading (hilariously) to right-wing Tweeters losing their sh*t.
They think it’s some kind of left-wing conspiracy, whereas in fact, Twitter appears to have just deleted a bunch of non-existent fascists controlled from St Petersburg.
Not seeming to realise the irony, many are sharing their agony online with the hashtag #TwitterLockout.
Just LOST over 3500 followers in the past hour. Thanks #TwitterPurge. 🤮 pic.twitter.com/YeHJ7lYzv4— Janna Deplorable (@JannaWilkinso69) February 21, 2018
It's not polite to point and laugh at the stupid, but come on this is almost too good to be true.Twitter Locked me out tonight. Lost 2,000 followers simply because I’m a conservative voice exposing Liberal hypocrisy! #TwitterLockOut— 🇺🇸CHIZ 👌🏻 (@CHIZMAGA) February 21, 2018
However as we LOL at their expense, let's also take a moment to realize just how big this Russian operation truly was.
I mean some of these are just regular idiots on Twitter, NOT celebrities or big name politicians.
If they lost hundreds and even thousands of Twitter followers, what does that tell us about just how many fake accounts the Russians actually created, not just on Twitter, but on ALL social media platforms?
Here was how one Trump supporter reacted to learning that she had been manipulated by the Russians.
Can you say "cognitive dissonance?"A Florida woman who ran a Trump supporters page that unwittingly promoted a Russian-coordinated event on Facebook says she doesn’t believe that she was influenced by Kremlin-linked trolls https://t.co/fhcT0MyxUA pic.twitter.com/dOG3xXFpTw— CNN (@CNN) February 21, 2018
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