Why Your Twitter Follower Count Might Go Down This Week

Perhaps a healthier Twitter is one with smaller follower counts—even if that comes as a blow to your ego. That’s what the company is hoping, anyway. Over the last several months, Twitter has embarked on a renewed push to fight abuse and spam, as well as encourage “healthy” debates and conversations, and on Wednesday the social network announced it was expanding that effort to profiles that have been “locked” for suspicious behavior.

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