For all the Twitterers who were fretting about where their followers went earlier today, fear not. They're back.

Twitter engineers have corrected a bug that was messing with users' followers on Monday. To fix the problem, Twitter engineers had to reset users' followers/following numbers to zero for a while around midday, according to Twitter's Status update.

The microblogging site seemed to be back on its feet again a little after 2 p.m. EDT.

"We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to 'force' other users to follow them," the social networking site said. "We're now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place."

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