Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D on X: "I’m looking at follower counts among influential right-wing and left-wing Twitter accounts, and it appears that Matt Gaetz has gained more than 21,000 new followers since yesterday — far more than his daily average of +1300. https://t.co/PW91Beqx90" / X

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I’m looking at follower counts among influential right-wing and left-wing Twitter accounts, and it appears that Matt Gaetz has gained more than 21,000 new followers since yesterday — far more than his daily average of +1300.

7:03 PM · Apr 26, 2022

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