On the 27th October 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter and assigned himself the role of CEO of the company following a a surprise bid of 44 billion U.S. dollars in April 2022. Between October 27th and November 1st, approximately 877 thousand Twitter accounts were deactivated by users and 497 thousand accounts were suspended by Twitter, meaning that around 1.3 million Twitter profiles have been lost since Musk's take over. This is more than double the normal amount of weekly deactivated and suspended accounts in the measured time frame.
Number of deactivated or suspended Twitter accounts between October 27th and November 1st, 2022
Characteristic
Twitter accounts deactivated and suspended
Accounts deactivated
877,000
Accounts suspended
497,000
0200,000400,000600,000800,0001,000,000
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MIT Technology Review Insights. (November 3, 2022). Number of deactivated or suspended Twitter accounts between October 27th and November 1st, 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 25, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1344186/twitter-accounts-deactivated-suspended-take-over/
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