Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Twitter alleging that the micro-blogging web site is working beneath stress from the Centre and the expansion in his Twitter followers has been suppressed.

However, refuting the allegation of Congress MP, Twitter’s spokesperson stated that the corporate has a zero-tolerance method to manipulation and spam.

In a letter addressed to Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal, dated December 27, the Wayanad MP stated, “I believe Twitter’s unwitting complicity in curbing free and fair speech in India.”

Citing that his following has just about frozen ever since August 2021, when his account was briefly locked, the Congress chief shared that earlier, he was gaining new followers on the fee of over 2.3 lakh per 30 days, which even went as much as 6.5 lakh in sure months.

He had additionally despatched an evaluation of knowledge from his Twitter account exhibiting that the variety of followers, which at present stands at 19.6 million, had barely elevated for a number of months following an eight-day suspension in August final 12 months.

Terming the drop within the variety of his followers “not so coincidental”, he stated and listed a sequence of occasions that he believed led to the drop together with his video, the place he promised farmers that the three notorious farm legal guidelines can be repealed, being viral.

Rahul Gandhi’s account was suspended for nearly per week from August 6 to August 14 following his tweet by which he had allegedly revealed {a photograph} of the relations of a minor lady who was raped in New Delhi.

Twitter’s spokesperson response to Congress MP’s allegations stated, “Follower counts are a visible feature and we want everyone to have confidence that numbers are meaningful and accurate. Twitter has a zero-tolerance approach to platform manipulation and spam.”

“We fight spam and malicious automation strategically and at scale with machine learning tools, and as part of those consistent and ongoing efforts to ensure a healthy service and credible accounts, follower counts can and do fluctuate,” Twitter added.

Their assertion additional learn: “We remove millions of accounts each week for violating our policies on platform manipulation and spam. You can take a look at the latest Twitter Transparency Center update for more context. While some accounts notice a minor difference, in certain cases number could be higher.”