LOS ANGELES, July 13 — Twitter Inc’s top executive didn’t slide by unscathed in the social-media site’s crackdown on fake followers.
Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer and co-founder, said in a tweet yesterday that he lost 200,000 followers, bringing his total down to four million, after Twitter made good on its pledge to remove suspicious accounts.
On Wednesday, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal, policy, trust and safety, said the company would begin removing “locked accounts from follower counts across profiles globally. As a result, the number of followers displayed on many profiles may go down.” Locked accounts are those identified to have involved sudden suspicious changes in activity.
