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Twitter Removes Inactive And Locked Accounts. Guess Whose Follower Count Is Hardest Hit.

Hank Berrien

This week Twitter removed inactive and locked accounts from follower counts, and the third-most followed person on Twitter took a two-million person hit.

That person was former president Barack Obama, who boasted 104 million Twitter followers before the crackdown, but saw his number drop to roughly 101 million followers as of Thursday, according to The Hill.

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