Twitter Cleanup: PM Modi Loses 3 Lakh Adepts, Rahul Gandhi 17,000



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NEW DELHI: As Twitter began to clean up its platform by removing dormant and locked accounts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost nearly 300,000 followers Friday while Party Chairman Rahul Gandhi lost more than 17 000 subscribers.

The number of supporters of Modi increased from 43.4 million to 43.1 million.

According to SocialBlade.com, which tracks the number of Twitter followers on a daily basis, Modi's Twitter name (@narendramodi) lost 2.84,746 followers.

The nickname (@PMOIndia) lost 140,635 subscribers.

Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) lost 17,503 followers while congressional leader Shashi Tharoor lost 1,501,509 followers.

The microblogging platform was yet to come with an official statement about it.

Twitter earlier this week announced that it will remove locked accounts – which are disabled due to suspicious activity – from the number of followers across profiles overall.

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The move is likely to affect the highest profile users the most.

With this clean-up exercise, Foreign Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) lost 74,132 subscribers.

While BJP President Amit Shah became poorer with 33,363 followers, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal lost 91,555 followers.

The former Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah lost 21,878 followers, SocialBlade.com showed.

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