Following a letter from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal about his follower count, the social media company on Thursday assured the figures were “meaningful and accurate.” A Twitter spokesperson said follower numbers are a telltale feature and the company has a “zero tolerance approach” to platform manipulation and spam, news agency ANI reported.

The spokesperson added: “We use machine learning tools to combat spam and malicious automation strategically and at scale, as follower numbers can and do fluctuate as part of our ongoing and ongoing efforts to ensure health services and trusted accounts. “

In a letter to newly appointed chief executive Parag Agarwal, Gandhi said his influence on the microblogging platform appeared to follow “government pressure to shut me up,” according to people familiar with the matter. restricted. One of his tweets was recently removed for violating Twitter’s content guidelines.

“I would like to draw your attention to what I believe is Twitter’s complicity in curbing free and fair speech in India without their knowledge…I have heard reliably, albeit cautiously, from the folks at Twitter India that they are under tremendous pressure from the government, Ask them to silence my remarks. Voice,” Gandhi wrote.

Every week, Twitter removes millions of accounts that violate the company’s policies on platform manipulation and spam, the spokesperson said. The spokesperson added that while some Twitter handlers noticed small differences in follower counts, in some cases the numbers could be higher.

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