If your followers counter starts to decrease you should know that it is not a mistake or a disband of followers to your profile. Twitter has announced that as of this Wednesday it stops counting blocked accounts in the total number of followers of the profiles.
These blocked accounts are those whose access has been frozen or restricted after the detection of sudden changes in their behavior. When this happens, from Twitter you get in touch with your owners and if you do not reset your password and validate your account they keep it temporarily inoperative. These types of profiles are those that are now excluded from the counts.
Only those who have a greater number of followers may experience more sharp decrease.
"We know that this setting is can be surprising to some, but we are convinced that the accuracy and transparency are essential when making Twitter a safe and reliable place for public conversation" comment from Twitter in the statement
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Those in charge for Twitter warn that the most severe variations in the number of followers will take place over the next few days , although the movements "could continue to vary on a regular basis" because the work at the time of identifying these types of accounts is constant.
However, and always according to the social network, "most users will see a reduction of just four followers or less . " Only those with a greater number of followers may experience more sharp declines.
From Twitter they clarify that this change will not affect their number of active monthly users or active daily users
Twitter explains that most of these frozen accounts were created by real people , unlike those of bots or unwanted advertising, but currently they can not assure that the user who originally opened them still has control or access to them. Bot accounts , moreover, say that they normally show suspicious activity from the beginning and thanks to their technologies they are able to close them automatically.
The company has also explained that this update "focuses specifically on followers because it is one of the most visible features of our service and is often associated with credibility " and that it will not affect active monthly users or active daily users of the platform.