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My guess: many humans were caught in the purge. I've seen people explain that Twitter locked their account, asking for a phone number for verification. While th
by alwayseasy 8y ago
My guess: many humans were caught in the purge. I've seen people explain that Twitter locked their account, asking for a phone number for verification. While they were locked out, they were subtracted from the follow count of the accounts they followed.
- btilly 8y agoMy guess, new fake accounts. The best evidence for that is the following snippet from the article: The most striking example of those massive rebounds is the account of @AdelAliBinAli. Before the purge, this account had 6.2M followers. On July 14, its follower count was down to 2.7M followers (-3.4M / -55%). Between July 14 and July 19, it regained 1.2M followers, and as of July 23rd, this account now has 6.6M followers, which is even more than before the purge and represents 3.9M additional followers gained. As for the others, having more than a statistically average number of purged followers is evidence that you were buying fake followers in the first place. The obvious explanation for large increases in followers for someone who is already known to buy them is that they bought more.