A few minutes ago I had around 500 twitter followers, then all of a sudden I dropped down to around 400 twitter followers. I wasn’t sure what was going on so I checked Summize, to see if anyone else was having the same problems, sure enough, they were.
There are a lot of comments floating around from irritated twitter users, complaining of their sudden drop of followers, and the fact that they are no longer following the same amount of people. Not sure whether this is just a bug or not as we have not heard anything from anyone on the twitter team.
Of course, the folks with more twitter followers such as Chris Brogan, were hit much harder.
There is some speculation that Twitter is simply removing all of the spam bots from their user index, in which case around 25% of my followers were spammers, the 25% number does seem to be consistent for very users though.
So, this of course begs the question of, is twitter booting followers or spammers?
Are you having the same problem?
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