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PM Modi Loses 3 Lakh Followers in Twitter Cleanup

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Channel: TV9 Kannada · 2018 · News & Politics

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As Twitter began sanitising its platform by removing inactive and locked accounts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lost nearly 3,00,000 followers while Congress president Rahul Gandhi lost over 17,000 followers.

The number of Modi’s followers went down to 43.1 million from 43.4 million.

According to SocialBlade.com that tracks the number of Twitter followers on a daily basis, Modi’s personal Twitter handle (@narendramodi) lost 2,84,746 followers. The official handle (@PMOIndia) lost 1,40,635 followers.

Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) has lost 17,503 followers while Congress leader Shashi Tharoor lost 1,51,509 followers. The micro-blogging platform was yet to come up with an official statement on this.

Twitter earlier this week announced it will remove locked accounts — which are disabled owing to suspicious activity — from follower counts across profiles globally.

The move is likely to affect high-profile users the most.

With this clean-up exercise, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) has lost 74,132 followers.

While BJP President Amit Shah was left poorer by 33,363 followers, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has lost 91,555 followers. Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah has lost 21,878 followers, SocialBlade.com showed.

While union textiles minister Smriti Irani lost 41,280 Twitter followers, the number of followers BJP leader Subramanian Swamy lost on the platform also stood at nearly 41,000.

Former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav saw a drop of over 2,200 in his number of followers on the microblogging site.

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