Several high-profile Canadian Twitter accounts lost from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand followers on Thursday afternoon, after Twitter began a site-wide purge of fake and/or dormant accounts.
Dear @twitter – F U! I had a lot of followers who just sit back and enjoy reading tweets; they don't follow many & they don't tweet themselves. You just determined they were not worthy. Ageism? Oh yes. #shameonyou
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