Twitter Followers of celebrities getting reduced for this reason

London, July 12: The giant microblogging site, Twitter said that it is subtracting some accounts it has flagged for suspicious activity from the follower numbers of its hundreds of millions of users, part of the social-media company's efforts to clamp down on abusive activity.

Twitter is removing accounts that had been locked due to an unusual change in behavior such as the sudden sharing of misleading links, sensitive information and other types of problematic content. Removing the locked accounts will reduce follower counts by about 6% across the service, the company said.

But Twitter said the move won't affect its numbers of monthly or daily active users, metrics closely watched on Wall Street as signals of engagement on the platform.

Most people using Twitter will lose "our followers or fewer" as part of the moves this week, the company said, while celebrities and others with large numbers of followers “will experience a more significant drop."

One of the biggest losers seems to have been Twitter's own primary account (@Twitter), which shed 7.5 million fake accounts to drop 12% Thursday, from 62.85 million earlier in the morning to 55.35 million as of 2:45 p.m. By Friday morning, that was down to 55.1 million.

Barack Obama's (@barackobama) total followers shrank by 2.36 million, or 2.3%, to 101.3 million by Friday morning.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump), possibly Twitter's most controversial major user, saw his follower count drop by about 300,000, from 53.4 million to 53.1 million, on Thursday. (His account stood at 53.07 million as of Friday a.m.)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (@narendramodi)'s twitter account followers from 43.4 millions to 43.1 millions.

The celebrities Amitabh bachchan, shah rukh khan, salman khan, and Mahesh babu are in the list. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s (@jack) follower count dropped by 226,000 (5.4%) to 3.99 million as of Friday.