If today you have looked at your account on Twitter and you have seen that you have fewer followers than normal, do not worry. It is a new change that has been introduced in the popular social network. In this way, blocked accounts no longer count towards total followers. Blocked accounts are those profiles that have been frozen because the social network has detected sudden changes in their behavior.
Twitter contacts the owners of these profiles and if there is no password change on their part, this account is temporarily inactive. These are the profiles that they will not be part of this count now.
So what seems like a change without too much importance, can cause us to see with many accounts they lose a notable number of followers. Twitter claims transparency and accuracy are essential. That is why this change is introduced.
The function went into effect yesterday, but variations in the number of followers are expected to become effective in the coming days. So stay tuned for the evolution, because you may notice notable differences in some cases. Although in a normal account the variation should not be too high.
In the cases of blocked accounts, Twitter claims they are accounts created by people, not by bots. But, given the behavior they have shown in recent times, it is not possible to know for sure if they are still in the hands of the original owner of it.
We will see how this change affects the number of followers on the social network. A news that comes after Twitter announced that removed 70 million fake accounts between May and June, which will cause a reduction in the total number of users of the social network.