Twitter lost nine million users during the third quarter, representing its worst quarterly decline ever.
The social network revealed the drop in its earnings report on Thursday and acknowledged that it had anticipated losing around five million users during the period. Twitter now has 326 million active users.
Twitter was quick to say that its user drop was due in part to the company clamping down on accounts that disseminate spam or use automated bots to try to target legitimate users. Many Twitter users reported over the summer that their follower counts had dropped considerably during one of Twitter’s purges.
