Accordingly bots and fake profiles on Twitter are not a new phenomenon, proven a number of times with accounts tweeting out synchronized content with an agenda. Meanwhile it is also not new information that political parties employ bots to gain traction around their propaganda. Meanwhile an audit tweeted by a verified account called ‘Twiplomacy’ revealed the proportion of fake followers that world leaders such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and Pope Francis have.



Accordingly the results are quite interesting. Sources have reported that 60% of Modi’s followers are bots, according to the study. The same is true for 37% of Trump’s and 59% of the Pope’s followers, which essentially means, out of Modi’s 40.3 million followers, 24.18 million are bots. According to Nick Bilton’s piece in Vanity Fair, bots have been around for a while. And until 2012, they weren’t even seen as a bad thing.

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Moreover the problem started however when brands realized that people with huge social media following could be used to sell their products. Furthermore Bilton says in his article that Twitter has always known about these bots or fake accounts. It has just removed enough bots for it to seem like they care, but not enough to significantly bring down the number of active users on the micro blogging site.

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