X, formerly known as Twitter, conducted a major purge of accounts overnight, resulting in significant follower losses for many users. Reports indicate that thousands of users experienced a drop in followers, with some large accounts losing between 3,000 to 5,000 followers. The purge also led to the suspension of multiple active conservative accounts. Users have expressed confusion and frustration over the sudden changes, with some suspecting that real accounts were mistakenly banned with no way to appeal. Additionally, there were instances where followers were lost and then regained, suggesting potential glitches in the system. The purge was primarily aimed at removing bot accounts.
What has been going on with @x ? A lot of accounts have been losing tons of reach and losing tons of followers? I hate to say this. But my reach was greater before the change of ownership of x .
Lost another 100 followers at 4 am. Happens every night. Apparently I'm not the only one. https://t.co/LNNVHNHUd1
Last night I lost 400 followers, and just now they've reappeared. What gives?
Somebody @x really screwed up on the bot purge.
That's weird. I lost 500 followers overnight and just gained 500 back. Plus a bunch of conservatives were permanently suspended then restored. I think this may have just been a glitch.
In their bot purge X banned a TON of real accounts with no way to appeal. I'm not even talking just politically extreme accounts. This is absolutely wild.
Did you lose followers last night? I must be an outlier ..I actually gained 300 followers..
I lost a couple hundred followers overnight -- I assume Twitter did a purge of bot accounts.
There was another HUGE purge of X accounts last night, it's weird to me that even dating back to when Jack owned this platform they just never could get these "bot purges" right. It's almost like someone is there tossing in a few people they don't like & trying to cover it up.
Did you suddenly lose a lot of followers on X in the last 24 hours?
Looks like @X took the trash out last night - hundreds of followers gone - taking new applications for spam bots.
Anybody got any idea why I lost 1,000+ followers overnight?
I lost 1800 followers since yesterday
I lost 500 last night. I gain followers all day and lose them every night. Have been trapped at 204,000 followers for months now. Welcome to Twitter 1.0 Part II. https://t.co/zs7q57u8sE
Thousands of 𝕏 users have reported loosing large numbers of followers overnight. Multiple large accounts reported a drop of 3000-5000 followers. Multiple active conservative accounts were also suspended. Did you experience a sudden drop in followers? https://t.co/44m2NyqlL2
Meanwhile, there was a major purge of X accounts overnight. 😒 https://t.co/0M7rPmVIod