It has been reported by Twiplomacy that more than half the followers of PM Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Twitter are fake.
Rahul Gandhi topped the list of Indian leaders with fake followers on Twitter with 68%. The Congress president has 6.2 million followers. He is closely followed by BJP president Amit Shah with 67% of his Twitter followers being fake. Modi stands at number three with 61%.
Twiplomacy, which assists international organisations and governments to improve their digital strategy, claimed that 24,799,527 of Modi's 40,993,053 followers are fake.
The figures were reportedly determined with the help of the Twitter Audit algorithm while considering factors such as the ratio of followers of friends, date of the last tweet and number of tweets and so on.
Arun Jaitley, Arvind Kejriwal, Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh feature on the list as well.
