New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has expressed concern over the stagnant number of his followers on social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Expressing his concern, Tharoor has written a letter to X owner Elon Musk. He has asked X to provide clarification on what could be the potential issued regarding his account.
For the last several years, Shashi Tharoor’s X account has a fan following of 84 lakh. And this had remained unchanged for several years.
Anomaly highlighted by X user
Writing on X, Shashi Tharoor said, “This has been the case for four years! A source at the old Twitter India told me there was a problem he couldn’t understand: he had reviewed my daily statistics over six months, and found a strange pattern — my followers went up by over 1000 a day, about 60-70 “unfollowed” me each day, but my overall followers total wouldn’t budge above 8.495 million.”
The anomaly was highlighted by a X user with the name Bharat Tiwari. The user questioned the stagnancy in follower growth of Tharoor’s account while other users experienced a healthy growth.
Bharat Tiwari has tagged both Shashi Tharoor and Elon Musk while posing the question to X.
X’s reply to Shashi Tharoor
Tharoor then responded to the question and further wrote, “After three years plus of noticing this and no change under @X, I wrote to @elonmusk to inquire about this and received a lawyer’s letter in return— flatly denying there was a problem! So much for corporate responsiveness… The only practical consequence of my inquiry is that my followers count now drops unsteadily each day — from the peak of 8.495m to 8.429m today.”
Good question. This has been the case for four years! A source at the old Twitter India told me there was a problem he couldn’t understand: he had reviewed my daily statistics over six months, and found a strange pattern — my followers went up by over 1000 a day, about 60 – 70… https://t.co/IpfTJpMvwt
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 17, 2024
