Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Lost 200,000 Followers in Fake-User Purge

  • Site is removing locked accounts and warned of possible drop
  • Trump, Obama and Katy Perry also took a hit in followers
Jack DorseyPhotographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Twitter Inc.’s top executive didn’t slide by unscathed in the social-media site’s crackdownBloomberg Terminal on fake followers.

Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer and co-founder, said in a tweet Thursday that he lost 200,000 followers, bringing his total down to 4 million, after Twitter made good on its pledge to remove suspicious accounts.