Former US president Obama, the most popular person on Twitter with more than 131 million followers, lost 300,000 of them nearly overnight, according to news outlet NBC. — Bloomberg
SAN FRANCISCO: Key figures on the American left, Barack Obama among them, have shed thousands of followers since Elon Musk’s planned purchase of Twitter emerged, while numbers have soared for right-wing politicians.
Musk, the world’s richest man, struck a deal Monday to buy the US-based social media platform for US$44bil (RM191.84bil).
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