Twitter followers disappeared?

[Rachel]

My twitter a/c was given a warning today for tweeting too much...after dat i activated it agn & it showed 0 following 0 follower... bt if I go to some profile it showed that they followed me... But after 12 hr now its showing that I have 24 followers & only those who followed me today... But my following count is same!! WHY DID IT HAPPENED?? WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW??
P.S I has 3000 followers

[Sam]

It's a glitch

-From twitter

"Folks are reporting problems with missing followers - that is, seeing the follower counts drop on their profile pages.

We’re looking into this now.

Update: We’re going to go into maintenance mode to correct this problem.

Update (5:08p): We are out of maintenance mode. The missing followers and relationships are being restored. It may take several hours for your relationships to be back to the way they were before this outage occurred. We sincerely apologize for the disruption in service."

-http://status.twitter.com/post/43317134/missing-followers