As of Tuesday, LinkedIn users started to notice that their follower numbers were going down quickly, and sometimes by hundreds of users all at once. Since LinkedIn hadn’t said anything public at the time, a lot of people started to think that the problem might have been caused by them getting rid of fake accounts.
Some people even talked to people who knew about the problem and said it was because the company decided to get rid of fake, idle, or duplicate accounts. Others used the chance to talk about how they could help LinkedIn users keep their accounts from being “banned.” Another group of people wondered what they might have done wrong for their accounts to lose so much popularity so quickly.
A lot of people thought that LinkedIn was purging people, but later that day, the company said that it had looked into the problem and has now “resolved” it. It didn’t say what caused it or explain it.
The company said in a post on X, “We heard that some members may have seen a change in the number of connections and followers they have.” “Our team looked into this right away.” We’re glad to say that this has been fixed.
When we asked the company for a response, it just pointed us to its Status page, where it said on Tuesday at 6 a.m. ET that some LinkedIn members were having “issues with their follower and connection count” and that it was still looking into it later that same day. The issue was marked as fixed by LinkedIn on Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET.
Users’ idea that the problem was caused by a sweep is not impossible to believe. Other social networks, like X, have also done “purges” to get rid of trolls, bots, and accounts that aren’t being used.
But because LinkedIn’s network is all about making yourself more relevant and powerful in your field, losing followers could have been terrible for people who use their profile to sell themselves or their businesses, or for people who do that kind of work for other people.
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Part of the reason the event got so big was that LinkedIn didn’t say anything about it on its own LinkedIn account or on its X account, which hasn’t been updated since May of last year.
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