When business tycoon Elon Musk took over the microblogging platform Twitter, users and celebrities threatened to disable their accounts to express their dissatisfaction with the new management. Many of these users later realize that this is easier said than done, as they do not follow their threats and continue to use Twitter as usual.

However, that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, as many people have reportedly disabled their accounts since Tweet Master took control.

The social network was disabled 877,000 times between October 27 and November 1, according to new data from Bot Sentinel, a firm that tracks false behavior on Twitter. Another 497,000 accounts were suspended during the same period.

To arrive at this number, Bot Sentinel looked at the percentage of analyzed users who had their accounts disabled or suspended after Musk’s takeover. They then applied that percentage to Twitter’s total user base, which is now 237 million.

A deactivation is when a user intentionally closes their account. Suspensions are when Twitter removes accounts for inactivity, inactivity, or violations of site rules.

A separate analysis by the Network Contagion Research Institute found that hackers have been trying to test Twitter’s capabilities since it bought Musk. For example, just 12 hours after Musk announced his takeover of Twitter, the use of “n-word” on the platform increased by nearly 500%.

Bot Sentinel founder Christopher Boozy predicts that Twitter’s increasingly hostile environment will eventually lead to user confusion. “I believe it will be a major issue for the platform if users continue to mass-deactivate their accounts,” he says. “If leftists and marginalized people leave the platform, Twitter will be no different from Parler or Truth Social.” Source