Chandigarh: Data released by Twiplomacy, a digital platform which helps governments and international organisations improve their digital strategy, revealed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has more fake followers than United States of America (USA) President Donald Trump.
Twiplomacy has used TwitterAudit to determine this information. It has listed five world leaders and represented their account audit with a tweet saying, “Some of the most followed world leaders and their share of bot followers”.
According to Twiplomacy 24,799,527 of Narendra Modi’s 40,993,053 followers on Twitter are fake while 16,191,426 are authentic ones.
A screenshot from TwitterAudit
The above figures were determined with the help of Twitter Audit algorithm, considering factors like the ratio of followers of friends, date of the last tweet and number of tweets.
Not just Modi but also top leaders like US President Donald Trump, Pope Francis, King Salman also had a massive number of fake Twitter followers.
According to the report, 35,980,870 of Trump’s 48,939,948 followers are genuine while 12,445,604 were found to be fake.
Twiplomacy also revealed that Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s official Twitter handle has 3,696,460 fake followers and 1,715,634 credible ones. The report had also stated that Pope Francis has 59 per cent fake followers.