It looks like Twitter knocked off about 300 followers for dozens of different accounts, including Chris Brogan, Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Jeremiah Owyang and yours truly. Perhaps the database was recompiled? See the gallery that follows this post.
Personally, it's not a big deal to me (I am grateful for every follower I have!). I just spotted the anomaly when I was giving a client a demo of the Twittercounter product.
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But, I just went through all of my followers last night looking to see if I missed anyone that I should be following, and noticed that the spam accounts were gone except for 2 or 3.
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