Summary According to the digital platform, Twiplomacy, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has more fake followers on Twitter than US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP
(Dunya News) – While there is much debate these days surrounding fake news, it seems another similar phenomenon has become a bit of a big deal on social media platforms – that of fake Twitter followers.
A digital platform Twiplomacy recently investigated fake followers of prominent personalities on Twitter.
Twiplomacy is a digital platform that caters governments and international organisations to develop transparency on the internet.
According to the digital platform, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has more fake Twitter followers than US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
World Leaders and their Fake followers
— Twiplomacy (@Twiplomacy) February 21, 2018
Some of the most followed world leaders and their share of bot followers as determined by https://t.co/TdNIomSdNt. Graphics prepared by @Saosasha @gzeromedia#DigitalDiplomacy pic.twitter.com/viid9ZTReV
With statistics provided for various prominent personalities, Modi’s fake followers topped the chart making over 60% of his account followers. The Twitter audit carried out by Twiplomacy identified fake followers for five prominent people including Donald Trump, Pope Francis, Indian PM Modi, Mexico’s president Pena Nieto, and Saudi King Salman.
Of Modi’s 40.3 million followers, 60 percent are fake followers, making it to the top of the list. He is followed by Trump, who has over 47 million followers on his Twitter account which has 37 percent fake followers.
The list also included Pope Francis, whose Twitter account’s fake followers made up 59 percent of his followers making him rank number three on the list. Mexico’s president Nieto with 47 percent fake followers and King Salman with 8 percent fake followers, rank next on the list.
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