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Many popular names in the film industry ended up with reduced followers following the initiation of a change on the microblogging site
Mumbai: Actors Shah Rukh Khan with Salman Khan on the Bigg Boss shootings season 10 during The Bollywood extended family Amitabh Bachchan on Twitter has dropped more than 424,000, while Shah Rukh Khan's supporters have lost more than 362,141 and Salman Khan have lost 340,884 followers, joining from other movie celebrities around the world following the "sanitization & # 39; of the microblogging platform
Twitter initiated a change on the platform Friday by removing from the account the inactive and locked accounts. Which meant that many of the popular names in the film industry ended up with reduced followers.
SocialBlade.com, which tracks the number of Twitter followers on a daily basis, had a tab on the account and Aamir Khan lost over 316,900 subscribers, while Priyanka Chopra lost 354,830 subscribers and Deepika Padukone lost 288,298.
The microblogging platform has not yet found an official statement on this subject.
Twitter earlier this week announced that it will remove the blocked accounts – which are disabled due to suspicious activity – accounts followers across the profiles at l-39 worldwide. Locked accounts are different from spam or bot and in most cases accounts were created by real people.
The move will probably hit the most prominent users.
Celebrities like Divya Dutta, Onir and Apurva Asrani reacted by losing supporters overnight.
Dutta, who currently has 493,000 fans on the microblogging site, tweeted Thursday night: "Aiyyo, what happened? .. brutal fall of thousands of followers in one hour! "
Director Onir wrote:" I just realized that I lost 1,000 nights … Even pinch. .. Laugh loudly in India.What is the secret? "
The writer-publisher Apurva Asrani tweeted:" I lost 500 subscribers overnight. ask if it's cleaning the bots that Twitter mentioned earlier. "
