Related note:
I don't know how much time this crowd spends on twitter, but today, all of a sudden, literally hundreds of conservatives leaning tweets are just appearing by like magic on peoples timelines. Conservative folks are all of a sudden reaching followers that are interested in their views and engaging on threads.
An example:
https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1518978445631401986 ( I already followed Larry, but he's seeing a bunch of movement)
IraqVetern8888 and John Ringo showed up on my feed today, and I didn't even know they were on Twitter.
The deal isn't actually done yet, so it's not like Elon is in there tearing things up. I have two theories: Twitter employees aren't as monolithic as everyone thought, and folks that previously felt the need to keep a head down and go with the liberal flow are feeling empowered to tweak stuff (probably not), or there was a shadowban algorithm, and someone nuked it before Elon could make it public. By the time the deal is done there will be no evidence that algorithmic de-platforming ever occurred.