After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrote to Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal last month claiming that his number of followers had started dwindling, the social media company said on Thursday that the numbers were “meaningful and accurate”. A Twitter spokesperson pointed to the company’s “zero-tolerance approach to platform manipulation and spam.”
A Twitter spokesperson said, “We fight spam and malicious automation strategically and extensively with machine learning tools, and as part of our ongoing and ongoing efforts to ensure a healthy service and reliable accounts The number of followers may fluctuate.”