To say that there has been a shakeup at Project Veritas over the past 36 hours would be a major understatement:
Also currently being shaken up: The org's Twitter base.
The Twitter account of Project Veritas has lost more than 200,000 followers in the past day, coinciding with the rancorous departure of the right-wing organization's founder and CEO.
As of 3:20 a.m. ET, the account had lost more than 214,000 followers — nearly 192,000 on February 20 alone — according to figures from Social Blade, an analytics firm. A real-time counter showed that, at the same time, the number of followers was still falling.
These are some pretty brutal stats:
Not the kind of thing you want happening to your social media metrics.