A sudden mysterious change in the number of followers of facebook had left its users in shocked. Even the follower count of Mark Zuckerberg's has dropped from nearly 100 million to a mere 9,993 overnight.
Early part of this week witnessed the unexpected drops in Facebook follower counts were observed in the accounts of several USA's largest media. This incident took place on Monday and Tuesday. This initiated a circulation of rumours that the social media giant might be deleting fake or bot accounts. While many others are suspecting the possible existence of a bug in world’s most popular social media account.
It is revealed from the data produced by analytics platform CrowdTangle, the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Hill, USA Today, New York Post, and Newsweek all experienced massive decline in the number of followers on October 3 and 4. Apart from this numerous users of Meta's Facebook could not back out of complaining the loss of majority of their followers on the social media platform.
While the reason behind this mishap is yet to be revealed it is a shocking fact that Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost over 119 million followers which resulted in a drop in his follower count to 10000.
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen tweeted."Facebook created a tsunami that wiped away my almost 900,000 followers and left only 9000 something on the shore. I kind of like Facebook's comedy". Meta spokesperson informed, “We're aware that some people are seeing inconsistent follower count on their Facebook profiles. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience”.