Roseanne Twitter Followers Jump More Than 35 Percent After Show Cancellation

“The old saying is ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity’ and this appears to be Exhibit A,” Joe Concha, a media reporter for The Hill tells TheWrap

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Roseanne Barr may have lost her show, but Twitter hasn’t abandoned her.

The star of ABC’s now former hit “Roseanne” has seen her audience on the social media platform balloon more than 35 percent since her infamous, racially-charged tweet suggesting that former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett is a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Planet of the Apes.”

On the day the tweet was launched — in the early morning hours of March 29 — Barr had approximately 646,000 followers, according to a snapshot from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. But as of Monday, June 4, less than a week after the firestorm first erupted, Barr’s following had increased to 878,000, a 35.9

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