The social network site begins the process of deleting over 70 million (fake, dormant, Inactive, spam, bots) accounts as announced by its CEO, Jack Dorsey.
Jack who has also lost 200,000 followers to the purge earlier announced that, “This week we’ll be removing locked Twitter accounts (locked when we detect suspicious changes in behavior) from follower counts across profiles globally. The number of followers displayed on many profiles may go down”.
This week we’ll be removing locked Twitter accounts (locked when we detect suspicious changes in behavior) from follower counts across profiles globally. The number of followers displayed on many profiles may go down. #health https://t.co/JGmE4ofoZ2
— jack (@jack) July 11, 2018
Action on this starts today https://t.co/HSfFE9ReLi
— jack (@jack) July 12, 2018
Twitter users have noticed a decline in the number of their followers and some have even decided to make jokes out of the situation.
See below
https://twitter.com/CliffShep/status/1017500056641912832
Wow, I lost around 110 fake followers in the Great Twitter Purge of 2018.
— Chris Krewson (@ckrewson) July 12, 2018
