Last week, Twitter removed the blue checkmark verification badges given to “legacy” accounts on the platform. Conservative radio host Chris Stigall said that the move was a good one, but claimed there was still some funny business going on inside the walls of Twitter.
The Christ Stigall Show host claimed that his follower count rarely fluctuates, and finds it difficult to believe he isn’t gaining followers throughout the year.
“If I pick up 10 followers today, I’ll go back tomorrow and check, all 10 have disappeared,” he said. “My account has been held at one spot for the year or so after Donald Trump was held off the platform. It flatlined. Stopped growing. After organic growth over 10 years, it just stopped growing. Then Elon (Musk) bought it, and for a short, brief time, it started to tick up again. Now we’re right back to flatline. Zero growth…it never moves from the same spot. So if you were to watch my Twitter account move over the next month, you should probably get a hobby, but if that’s what you were doing, you would notice today it says there are 48,000-something followers, and that probably will not have moved, in a month, from that spot.
“There’s something weird still going on inside Twitter,” Stigall said. “If I’m paying $8 a month, I feel like I should be able to call up and go ‘What’s going on? What’s the deal with my account?’, right?”
Stigall added that he believes there’s a system in place to continue to limit the reach of conservative voices on the platform.
“It’s just amazing how my Instagram account has started to grow,” Stigall said after pointing out that his digital team has started to boost his videos on the platform. “It’s not something I even wanted to do, dragging me reluctantly into 2023. They’re like ‘Just try it’. It’s amazing! If you pay Facebook, or you pay Instagram, ‘Hey, look! It’s Chris Stigall!’.”
