NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the distinction ofbeing one of the top political leaders to have a massive following onTwitter. But, a recent study conducted by Twiplomacy revealed that astaggering 60 per cent of the BJP stalwart’s Twitter followers were foundto be fake, New Indian Express has reported.

Twiplomacy, a digital platform which assists international organisationsand governments to improve their digital strategy, claimed that 24,799,527of Modi’s 40,993,053 followers are fake ones while 16,191,426 are authenticones.

The above figures were determined with the help of Twitter Audit algorithm,considering factors like the ratio of followers of friends, date of thelast tweet and number of tweets.

Not just Modi but also top leaders like US President Donald Trump, PopeFrancis, King Salman also had a massive number of fake Twitter followers.

According to the report, 35,980,870 of Trump’s 48,939,948 followers aregenuine while 12,445,604 were found to be fake.

Twiplomacy also revealed that Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s officialTwitter handle has 3,696,460 fake followers and 1,715,634 credible ones.The report had also stated that Pope Francis has 59 per cent fake followers.