News that Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk reached a deal to acquire Twitter Inc. has drawn mixed reactions from investors, Twitter users and celebrities. Here’s the latest.
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A large number of deactivations have happened on Twitter since the news that Musk was paying $54.20 or around $44 billion to acquire the social media platform.
An NBC News report said many large Twitter accounts saw a big drop in followers shortly after the acquisition was announced.
Twitter called the deactivations “organic” and said they were being looked at.
“While we continue to take action on accounts that violate our spam policy which can affect follower counts, these fluctuations appear to largely be a result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation,” Twitter said.
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