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    1. Douglas Murray‏Verified account @DouglasKMurray 21 Jan 2020

      Douglas Murray Retweeted

      Same thing here. People follow me and then Twitter silently makes them ‘unfollow’ me. Worse is when someone ‘likes’ a pinned Tweet about my books. Twitter then ‘unlikes’ it for them. Who are we to know what we like when Twitter can decide for us? https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1219603110257139712 …

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Jan 2020
      Replying to @DouglasKMurray

      If you think Twitter is really doing this, you should organize an experiment and see if you can get clear evidence of it happening, instead of just after the fact reports. It would be a huge news story if you could.

      8:31 AM - 21 Jan 2020
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        2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Jan 2020
          Replying to @paulg @DouglasKMurray

          Incidentally, I doubt very much that Twitter has an official policy of secretly decreasing people's followers. If this is happening, it's an individual Twitter employee.

          4 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
        3. Tom‏ @tompccs 21 Jan 2020
          Replying to @paulg @DouglasKMurray

          Tom Retweeted doodlewhale  ✍️ 🐳

          This has been reported by others (video evidence below)https://twitter.com/doodlewhale/status/1161941456413691904 …

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          doodlewhale  ✍️ 🐳 @doodlewhale
          Replying to @FindusFingers @Glinner and 4 others
          What the... @TwitterSupport @Twitter Why is this happening? Video evidence attached. pic.twitter.com/hTeq5PSYX0
          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Martin Lavin‏ @Real_SF 21 Jan 2020
          Replying to @paulg @DouglasKMurray

          Paul i wish that were true. Twiter and You Tube are The competitors to other media, Right or Left. Not in their interest to encourage participation.

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        2. hbd chick - #FFCE‏ @hbdchick 21 Jan 2020
          Replying to @paulg @DouglasKMurray

          has happened to me quite a lot: my followers being "unfollowed" from me, and myself being unfollowed from others. @TwitterSupport

          1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
        3. Lucio Martelli‏ @LucioMM1 21 Jan 2020
          Replying to @hbdchick @paulg and

          Yes, same thing in my small world as well

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Mark Ryan‏ @Shryano 21 Jan 2020
          Replying to @paulg @DouglasKMurray

          Maybe Twitter has decided the followers are not real (eg Russian Bots). Presumably they have programs which attempt to automatically manage that now?

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