Not Sparing Anyone
14 Jul, 2018
Twitter's recent move of removing politicians and social media influencers losing followers.
The move did not spare 12 percent of its total followers – about 7.7 million.
In Pic: Clockwise from top right, Narendra Modi, Amitabh Bachchan, and Jack Dorsey were among the numerous accounts who saw a drop in following.
Main Man
14 Jul, 2018
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also tweeted about his following being knocked down since the move. The tech boss lost about 200k followers.
Where Art Thou
14 Jul, 2018
As a result of Twitter's sanitising move, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost nearly 300,000 followers while Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi lost over 17,000 followers. Modi's followers went down from 43.4 million to 43.1 million.
The official handle of the PMO (@PMOIndia) lost 140,635 followers.
Goodbye
14 Jul, 2018
US President Donald Trump who has become the most followed world leader on Twitter around 53.4 million followers, lost 100,000 followers . An earlier report indicated that Trump's followers had "more than doubled since taking office".
Say No More
Jul 14, 2018
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan's extended family on Twitter dropped by over 424,000. This year, Bachchan, one of the most widely followed Indian celebrities on the platform, has been reported to be a new developer account application process that include use case reviews and policy compliance checks, as well as new protections to prevent the registration of spammy and low-quality apps.
"Starting today," said Twitter.
Following application approval, the developers may be required to undergo additional changes in their content.
"We're also trying to reduce the number of applications that we can get by using the API Policy support form," Twitter informed.
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"If you already have more than 10 registered applications, you can not use them for free. ones, "he added.
On September 10, Twitter will add tweet, retweets, likes, follows, or Direct Messages.
By default, an app (across all of its users) will be limited to 300 tweets and retweets (combined) per three hours; 1,000 likes per 24 hours; 1,000 following for 24 hours and 15,000 Direct Messages per 24 hours.
Twitter also introduced a new option for people to report violations of its platform policies.
"You can use the 'Report a bad app' option in our Help Center to report our APIs which produce spam, invade user privacy, or otherwise violate our rules," Twitter noted.
