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Craig Hale

Lost a load of LinkedIn followers recently? It could just be a bug

LinkedIn app on an iPhone.

Some LinkedIn users have reported losing hundreds or even thousands of followers, likely due to a bug which has since been fixed, but the glitch has already fuelled widespread concern about the Microsoft-owned job site’s integrity.

Given the ongoing battle regarding bots and other illegitimate accounts on social media, many have wondered whether the change was a deliberate clean-up effort by LinkedIn to eliminate such accounts.

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