[moomin]

I’m seeing a lot of unrelated people reporting that their follower accounts are cratering. The two big explanations for this some problem with the system that maintains the count, or a large number of accounts leaving. The best case scenario is that most of those accounts are bots, but even rats leaving isn’t a good sign of seaworthiness.

[rsynnott]

I think it’s going to greatly depend on what community you’re in. Anecdotally, I’m seeing a lot of people I follow leave (I’m keeping my own account dormant but existing for the moment, because, who knows, Twitter may yet go the way of Tumblr and get sold off cheap to someone more competent in the end).

Of course, it could just be a data problem, too.