Former President Barack Obama lost more than 2 million Twitter followers on Thursday as the social-networking platform launched a new crackdown on fake accounts, according to a preliminary analysis from The Daily Beast.

At press time, the Twitter purge had cost Obama 2,346,119 followers, or more than two percent of his audience on the site. With more than 101 million remaining followers, Obama remains the third most-followed person on the site, a few million followers behind singers Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.

Other major political accounts were also hit by the purge, with President Trump losing 325,038 followers so far, a 0.7-percent decrease. As the first day of the Twitter purge wrapped up, Trump had more than 53 million followers left.

Twiter announced Wednesday that it would start deleting accounts that had been locked on suspicion of being hacked or used for spam. The accounts were already unable to post to the site, but after they're deleted they'll no longer appear in follower accounts, which are seen as indicative of influence or prestige on Twitter.

Twitter aimed to change that starting Thursday, deleting tens of millions of locked accounts. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was himself affected by the change, tweeting that he had lost 200,000 followers in the purge.

Comment: We don't know the criteria twitter used to purge the accounts, it looks politicians are not alone in these purges.

Katy Perry, the most popular user on all of Twitter, saw about 3 million followers disappear, bringing her total down to 107 million. Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift lost about 2 million each. Social media maven Kim Kardashian West lost about 1.5 million followers.

Some users quickly took notice, like 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, who tweeted, "...And just like that, 10K followers vanish." He added in another tweet, "Look, if they're genuinely fake or dead accounts, I have no problem with it. ...But how do we know?"

These twitter fake account counts are another proof that there is no fake social media influence in the election of Trump or "Russian meddling in the US elections".

Ouch that sound awful.

Um one question what is twitter?

it's for twits...I never knew anything about twitter before obarry was president, then about a month into his first term, he mentioned something about in one of his speeches and it became what it is now...

that's probably because the Russians,and republicans actually felt THREATENED by Obama,so they loaded up his account with lots of fake followers ,so they could talk bad about him,and everything he said or did.

the russians didn't have to put nearly as many fake followers on Donald trump's account,because he is in their pocket,and he tells so many lies,and says so much ridiculously stupid stuff that they don't think they need to load up his account with fake followers,cuz he is doing a better job of undermining himself then they EVER could!!!!

whatever gets you to sleep at night...

You're forgetting the millions that follow him for comic relief. He does slightly better than cats doing stupid things, but is way below the "hold my beer, and watch this" videos.

LMAO!!
you might want to watch the special report on TV from the dept. of Justice where they are AT THIS MOMENT announcing that Special Investigator Robert Mueller's investigation has just gotten back A LOT more indictments from a grand jury of ordinary American citizens against 12 Russian nationals who agree that,AMONG OTHER THINGS,they created fake email accounts to try to do things to influence the election in favor of donald trump!!

seems to me that THIS is EXACTLY what we are talking about in this thread!!

so,i guess that since this is a 'witch hunt',that Robert mueller just caught 12 MORE witches,huh?

well, Mueller is a traitor, that's a fact...and if they found 12 spies, they started during the Messiahs Obama era, not Trump's...how's that for found witches?

LMAO!!!

I find your utter desperation ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!!!

Did I miss something..didn't they say that it was Russia ..where was the part where it said the Republicans colluded with them..oh yea..it didn't..now if we want to talk about interfering with the election maybe we should talk to ole Bernie and what Hillary did to him..and as far as interfering with foreign elections perhaps we should sweep off our own porch before expecting others to sweep theirs...

"To Russia, if you're listening, I hope you can find that 33,000 emails from Hillary Clinton..." – – Donald Trump at a rally in 2016

Sounds to me like a general giving orders to his troops. I've wondered from the beginning if he might not be a Russian sleeper agent vis a vis the movie Salt

Twitter is a compound word.
But, since this is a PG13 site...

Let's just say, twitter is another word
for a woman's "taint".

Or you know that movie called The Manchurian candidate

Who cares what Obama is doing on twitter. Get over it. What is happening today.

not about what he's doing, it's about more DNC lying and cheating...2.3 million fake profiles?...

"KLAATU BARADA NIKTO"

everything is gonna be ok.. ...

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The Day the Earth Stood Still. Welcome to the world of awesome.

Librals still follow him as POTUS and his twin Hillary !



Sad