PM Modi loses 100,000 followers, Rahul 9,000 in November Twitter drive

As allegations of political bias add to the woes of Twitter in India, an independent study on the Twitter profiles of political leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi, has found many of them losing several thousands of followers after a November crackdown by the microblogging platform on fake profiles. While Modi lost around 1 lakh followers, Gandhi saw his Twitter followers diminishing by close to 9,000 after the clampdown.

Twitter had carried out a similar exercise globally in July last year which saw the prime minister’s follower count going down by around 3 lakh. Gandhi’s