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Figure 1: Daily Twitter follower growth rate for  @joebiden  and  @realDonaldTrump On January 6, 2021, the US Congress certified Joe Biden as the 46th US President .  On January 8, 2021, Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account , fallout from his tweets regarding the riots at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. In the aftermath of the events since Election Day up until the permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump , we compared the follower growth of the personal Twitter accounts of  the 45th US President Donald Trump ( @realDonaldTrump ) and the 46th US President Joe Biden ( @joebiden ) between 2020-11-03 and 2021-01-12.  We have also provided the historical Twitter follower count information for @joebiden and @realDonaldTrump  used for this analysis.  Although  @joebiden  gained approximately nine times the Twitter followers as  @realDonaldTrump  between 2020-11-03 and 2021-01-12,  ...

Figure 1:  Snapshots of Katy Perry’s account page on the three leading social media platforms: Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter . A little bit about Instagram In 2020, social media is considered as one of the most popular ways for people to connect with one another. Instagram (IG or Insta) is a photo and video-sharing social networking service and is the 6th most popular social network worldwide, with over 1 billion active users. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and was originally launched on iOS in October 2010. It remained independent until Facebook acquired it in 2012 . Recent statistics show that about six in 10 Instagram users log in at least once daily , making it the second most logged-in social media site for daily use after Facebook.  Katy Perry as a proxy for all of Instagram In this study, I am using Katy Perry’s Instagram account as a proxy for all of Instagram. She created her Instagram account in 2012 and as of Oct 1, 2020, she is the 20th mo...