l any individual would say, huh, looks like there's some irregularities in my account. And then they would go trying to figure out why. And what would they do? They would hit a wall.

I imagine how much access I have compared to just the average Twitter user, right, by being a public figure it's not fair, but I have a lot more access. What would you do if you were just an average Twitter user and you saw that you had been automatically unfollowed? I mean how would you even follow up on it? What would you do? Tweet about it? And there's nothing you could do. That's the end of the line. You would just sit there being frustrated. You might complain about it, but that's it.

So if you were China and you could massively change who's following who, who's seeing what, through the apps that you control, wouldn't you do it? It's sort of the perfect crime. I think you would. Now it doesn't necessarily mean that TikTok is doing it, but there are lots of apps that ask for that permission. And so my theory is that it's not Twitter management. It's definitely happening. And that it's third-party actors. Now it could be intelligence agencies, it could be campaigns, it could be other countries. But I think third parties are manipulating your Twitter account, and you should go into your phone and look for your permissions and get rid of any of those permissions if you don't want to be part of that.

All right, I've got a question for you. Can influence be measured on social media? And if so, how? So for example there are people who have very large social media accounts, and if they tweet something and it gets a lot of retweets, would you say that therefore they are influential? Well maybe, but it could be just a cute cat retweet. It could be just a celebrity. So people are interested. So I wouldn't necessarily think that you could measure influence directly by how many people liked it or tweeted it. I mean certainly if those are all factors, but not alone.

I would think it has something to do with who is connected to whom and the actual path that your tweets follow. So for example, does anybody have a big enough view of the social media landscape that they could say, you know this person doesn't have that many followers but every time this person tweets something it gets picked up by all these blue check influential people. So could you therefore say, well unrelated to the number of followers, this is an influential person? Probably, right?

Let's get rid of that troll. Goodbye, troll. But there are probably other way