The matter did not go unnoticed and spread like wildfire across social media platforms, making the goof-up the butt of all jokes. Take a look.
Twitter suspended at least 58 million user accounts in the final three months of 2017, according to data
Facebook and Messenger shared statistics and revealed that the "heart" emoji is one of the most used expression on the platforms.
At the same time, Twitter was aware that the shutdowns were considered overdue and the indictments just formalised the connections, the company added.
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Twitter decided to sanitise the platform by removing inactive and locked accounts. So, a lot of popular names from the film industry ended up with reduced followers.
Twitter disclosed the move on Wednesday in a blog.
Divya Dutta's fan responding to her tweet wrote, ''Ur fan list is waaaaay too bigger then this followers list.''
Several high-profile users were set to experience a drop in the number of their followers on the microblogging site as Twitter said it would remove locked accounts from follower counts across profiles globally.
The move comes at a time when Twitter is becoming more vigilant about any abuse of its platform for spreading misinformation, and has been weeding out fake accounts by the millions.
Around 11.30 pm on Tuesday, a couple of messages were posted from the Twitter handle of the traffic police. One of the messages read: "Message me at Twitter.com/justinformentin if you'd like to know how to fix this! (sic)."
'MyVoteToday’ was created by Apption Digital Technologies Pvt Ltd based in Bengaluru and Apption Digial Inc based in Palo Alto, California.
Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July.
The wave of account suspensions by the world's largest social network is one of several recent campaigns by Twitter to police its platform and stop spam and abuse of fake accounts.
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"In my opinion, it is absolutely wrong," Singh told reporters here when asked to comment on the issue.
Uday Chopra took to his Twitter to share his thoughts about trolls and requested Twitter to give them the honor of a verified account.
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The minister's husband Swara jKaushal, in an emotional response to a troll, today said the Twitter user's harsh words had caused "unbearable pain" to his family.
Earlier on June 25, Sushma Swaraj was trolled on Twitter after a regional passport officer in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow was transferred for allegedly harassing an inter-faith couple.
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