Influencers who drop those who follow them

A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge

Editor’s note:

Just for fun for all my readers including the Ops that frequent these boards, feel free to post other accounts that built huge followings in excess of 100K, then dumped nearly all of their mutual follows in order to manipulate their ratios. Please include your active account name on Twitter, approximately how many followers an account had before recalibrating and I will credit your addition if I include it. As I update I will add that I did (Update 1, 2, etc.) to the title.

There are probably a ton of such accounts right now that used follow chains to build a large base, that later dropped nearly every account that helped build them up to lofty influence levels. Here are a few of those that deleted tens of thousands of mutual followers that I am aware of.

This guy had some 200K follows, after successfully sued Trump over being blocked winning, getting verified status because of it, and now, due to dropping nearly everybody that wasn’t verified, is down to just 128 follows.

This account removed at least 80K followers once it broke the key 100K barrier, mostly using mutual follows.

Another account that once it surpassed its follower target, dropped over one-hundred thousand mutuals.

This account once sported a more reasonable follower ration of 2 to 1 than his current 31 to 1 ratio. It may have some automation for following accounts merely by interacting with one of his tweets leading to a follow for about a week before the system unfollows. David runs a great account deserving of a follow even without his follow back sticking as seen below with this amazing takedown of RepMTG.