According to twitter’s recent status updates , the twitter staff have corrected the followers and following counts which were displayed incorrect for some people . In fact many accounts that contained spam tweets were perished or removed from the database , due to which many users have found that their followers – following count has decreased .

Well there is nothing to worry about , since i myself have lost a couple 100 followers . This means that the count you see in your sidebar should match what you see on your follower and following pages.

As said by the twitter team ” No legitimate followings should be affected—we’re just cleaning up artifacts in the system.”

Twitter’s Status update – 23d July