Many celebrities, politicians and so-called social media influencers found their Twitter followings knocked down a few digits on Thursday 12th July as twitter purge slashed tens of millions of suspicious accounts from the totals.

For example, the actor Ashton Kutcher, an active member since the company’s early days who led other celebrities to embrace the platform, saw his follower count drop by more than a million. On Wednesday afternoon, he had 19.1 million. By Thursday evening, that was down to 18 million, a drop of nearly 6 percent.
Oprah Winfrey, who sent her inaugural tweet in 2009, had her following cut by about 1.4 million between Wednesday and Thursday evening. Ellen DeGeneres lost two million, leaving her at 76.1 million followers.

Twitter announced that it started purging millions of accounts yesterday. The micro-blogging platform specified that it would be removing locked accounts from follower counts across profiles globally, so we were to expect a drop in follower counts today. The accounts that Twitter will be purging today are locked accounts that the company ‘detected sudden changes in account behaviour’ and if the owners didn’t validate their accounts, they were henceforth purged.
http://techshrewd.com.ng/twitter-purge-top-accounts-lose-millions-of-followers/

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