The pro-Palestine Twitter account that’s impossible to follow

A mystery surrounds the X account @PalestinaHoy01, which spreads information about the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Users can follow this account, but a few seconds after clicking the “Follow” button or in case of refreshing the page, the action is canceled. That means @PalestinaHoy01 cannot add followers.

If yes, then how did the account get 17,000 followers? We don’t know that either. Reloading the profile page will increase the number to 23,500 or decrease to 14,000, 7,000 or 2,000. Furthermore, it shows different figures when different accounts are consulted. This behavior occurred after account owners managed to return to the platform yesterday after their previous account was closed.

The mystery of the PalestineHoy01 account may be due to a phenomenon known as ‘shadow banning’ or hidden deletion of its content on the platform. However, unless

This type of deletion, done intentionally in the shadows, means that some content is no longer visible to an account’s followers, even if it was published normally. However, the lack of visibility of content has been condemned as a method of censorship by platform owners.