On October 12, the number of followers of Facebook users suddenly decreased. Those who had millions of followers were reduced to mere thousands. Even Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg has only 9 thousand followers. People are questioning him by posting on Facebook and asking where did the followers go?
Followers of users on Facebook powered by Meta have suddenly dropped. People’s followers on Facebook have dropped by the millions for no known reason. Many users have also complained about this. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has lost more than 119 million followers. His number of followers has dropped below 10,000.
Where did the followers go?
When the number of followers on Facebook dropped, some attributed it to Russia’s designation of “META” as a terrorist organization. So some people also mocked the decrease in the number of followers of Mark Zuckerberg. Journalist and anchor Chitra Tripathi posted on Facebook and wrote, “How did I have less than 4.5 lakh followers on Facebook?”
“We are aware that some people are seeing a difference in the number of followers on their Facebook profiles,” a Meta spokesperson said. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and avoid any inconvenience. We are sorry for that.
Company is removing profiles of fake users: experts
This is believed to be caused by a bug. It is being said that this is the result of weeding out fake followers. According to experts, the company is removing the profiles of fake users. Due to which such results are coming. After the process is completed, everything will be back to normal. However, the question here is that if Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s followers dropped so much, were his followers fake too?
People made such comments
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin tweeted that Facebook created a tsunami that wiped out nearly nine lakh of my followers and left only 9,000. I love facebook comedy. On the other hand, a user named Sameer Ramgarh wrote that the followers have not gone anywhere. Here too followers are learning to fly. I also lost 17303 followers. Now whether they fall or not let me throw. Girjesh Shukla joked that I have lost 3 followers. I will file a defamation case against Jukar Pandey Ji. It was becoming very popular. A user wrote that look at the condition of Mark Baba crying for less followers. He has 9993 followers on his own Facebook.
Twitter users have also experienced the same
Twitter users have also had this experience. Twitter said that it periodically deletes spam and bot accounts that cause this. However, an official statement from the company has to be awaited for the exact reason behind the low number of followers on Facebook.