Twitter cuts suspect users from follower counts again, blames bug

Twitter subtracted millions of suspicious followers from the social media service. [Photo: Courtesy]

Twitter Inc made another attempt to make users’ tallies of followers more accurate on Friday, subtracting millions of suspicious followers which had reappeared on the social media service since a major purge in July.

Twitter is under pressure to tackle its problem of fake users, which are a turn-off for investors and advertisers and have led to scrutiny from US Congress.