Congress Slams Twitter As Rahul Gandhi’s Followers Touch 20 Million

New Delhi:

Months after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleged that his followers on micro-blogging website Twitter had been being restricted, the Opposition occasion on Monday stated that subsequent good points in followers show that the sooner freeze within the rely “was guided by an exterior affect”.

“The Twitter followers of Rahul Gandhi has touched the 20 Million mark. His letter to Twitter CEO and the rise in numbers of followers later proves that the freeze on the rely was guided by an exterior affect on Twitter,” tweeted Congress.

In a letter addressed to Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal on December 27, the Wayanad MP had stated, “I consider Twitter’s unwitting complicity in curbing free and truthful speech in India.”

Stating that his following has just about been frozen since August 2021, when his account was briefly locked, the Congress chief had stated that earlier he was gaining new followers on the price of over 2.3 lakh per thirty days, which had even gone as much as 6.5 lakh in sure months.

He had additionally shared an evaluation of information from his Twitter account, displaying that the variety of followers, which then stood at 19.6 million, had barely elevated for a number of months.

The Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate had slammed the Central authorities over the difficulty by saying that “Rahul Gandhi’s variety of followers, which used to develop quickly, has decreased. The dictator authorities is just not even sparing the social media platform.”

Nevertheless, replying to the allegations, Twitter spokesperson had stated that the “follower counts are a visual characteristic and we would like everybody to believe that numbers are significant and correct. Twitter has a zero-tolerance method to platform manipulation and spam.”

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