As a refresher, an account is locked when Twitter notices unusual activity and forces a password change. If the password hasn't been changed within a month, the account is locked, barring it from sending tweets, retweets or liking posts from others.

Last week it was discovered that Twitter apparently suspended some 70 million accounts between May and June. It didn't have "a ton of impact" on the amount of active users, the company told The Washington Post.

Twitter explicitly said that this week's removal from follower counts won't impact its daily users either. "While today's change doesn't affect MAU (monthly active users) or DAU (daily active users)," the blog post reads, "some accounts we remove from the service as part of our ongoing commitment to a healthy public conversation have the potential to impact publicly reported metrics."

That last bit is key, and probably the closest we'll get to Twitter apologizing for the free-for-all it fostered in recent years. Need a fun game? How about starting an office betting pool for how many followers the biggest accounts lose over the next few weeks.