What Started as sharing few screenshots and videos on the number of RT ‘s and Likes changing in few seconds, has now become viral over the Twitter about how the social media platform has suddenly shown trends of open bias based on the leaning of Twitter handles towards Left and right Wings respectively.
While there is complete silence from twitter India on how the number of likes and RT ‘s are getting manipulated or there’s some technical issue (which looks remote, considering that the numbers are coming down for Right wing handles without the exception of Narendra Modi and going up exponentially for LW and handles like Rahul Gandhi )
Many of the noted Twitter handles have taken this up since yesterday and we await response from Twitter India …
Something not right with @Twitter @TwitterIndia
Suddenly retweet counts on every tweet going down. I just noticed on @SriSri account. Compare the screenshot below.
From thousands of retweeted to two digits and even lesser. #TwitterMischief#ShameOnTwitterIndia pic.twitter.com/CV3g1RV07c— Kamlesh Barwal (@KamleshBarwal) February 12, 2019
माननीय @TwitterIndia , क्या हम गरीबों के रिट्वीट कट कटकर राहुल गांधी जी के जन धन खाते में जमा हो रहे हैं? ? pic.twitter.com/djFzHNEEn5
— Sushant Sinha (@SushantBSinha) February 12, 2019
Hello @TwitterIndia @jack
Why you are shadowing my tweets ?
2day I posted on #RafaleDeal n you reduced RT from more than 470 to 300 ! Why ?
Are You also fighting Indian Parliament election in 2019??
Whose fake reputation U r guarding ??
Where is your ethics of transparency?? pic.twitter.com/95f7qerBbO— Major Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) February 12, 2019
India reposed it's faith in you but you cheated us @TwitterIndia
Great companies are built on trust & honesty. Deceit is the hallmark of Congress, whom you are trying to campaign for
Within 2 hours retweets were around 2000 & 4000 likes then reduced @BJP4India#TwitterCheater pic.twitter.com/XRlS2jK29e
— Gaurav Bhatia गौरव भाटिया ?? (@gauravbh) February 13, 2019
Dear @TwitterIndia why are you reducing my reach. I never abuse. I engage with followers and share genuine content with them. Why do you want to reduce my reach to share authentic info? What's the reason? pic.twitter.com/pCnaJSJ5U8
— Ashu (@muglikar_) February 12, 2019
Well well well. @TwitterIndia what are u doing with @RahulGandhi ji tweet ? The coming of age politician of India with a Gandhi surname ? His fans, his followers are as fake as this platform drama & his Gandhi surname ? #TuesdayMotivation #TwitterInsultsIndia #TwitterIndia pic.twitter.com/ZiCMdXPo8s
— PAYAL ROHATGI & Team- Bhagwan Ram Bhakts (@Payal_Rohatgi) February 12, 2019
भाई @TwitterIndia – एक सैंकड में आपने मेरी ट्वीट के RT 200 से 55 कर दिये और फिर 18 – Screenshots enclosed taken at seconds apart
Kindly explain this partiality!!! @Twitter pic.twitter.com/SuLIPpvhvV
— Manjinder S Sirsa (@mssirsa) February 12, 2019
Going by what’s happening on Twitter since yesterday, does seem to have been part of the mechanism, otherwise why does the manipulation results in negative numbers in RT’ s & for tweets of only the Right Wing & even handle of Narendra Modi.
Namaste @ianuragthakur ji, This is d limit now that @TwitterIndia has reached to. For d person having highest reach in the country, look at wt hs been hppning to his tweets. look no further. If his outreach is being blocked then forget abt others. @vagishasoni @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/vHJcPWkS8h
— Shishir .P. Murthy ?? (@demonhawk007) February 12, 2019
Sir look at here also. pic.twitter.com/WXF7XxDpzg
— आनन्द शर्मा (@ansharma777) February 12, 2019
Further, d numbers worked wonders 4 d handle of Rahul Gandhi exactly opposite to that of Narendra Modi. Within few minutes the likes and RT’s of tweets 4m Rahul Gandhi grew in leaps & bounds; is this being shown as the result of summons to Twitter?
Twitter handle of Priyanka Vadra came out of nowhere and got the Blue tick without a single tweet. Many on twitter pointed this out about the bias shown in giving out a blue tick to Ms. Vadra:
https://twitter.com/ProudBhagavathi/status/1094897084380127233
If you want to understand the depths of KKK white racist patriarch @jack's political manipulation & slave owner attitude, look no further.
?? White INC lady joins Twitter, given blue tick instantly
?? Brown BJP Union Minister who's been on Twitter for a while isn't pic.twitter.com/nxRRuaVfGB— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) February 13, 2019
Others even pointed out the latest update by Twitter on the process of giving verified status to handles being on hold. Is this for everyone or does it have different rules to different users. The current trend on Twitter shows a visible bias and
https://twitter.com/mad4cricket/status/1094985960700497922
Does this article on what Twitter CEO Jack saying: “…company can no longer be neutral on political and social issues…” perceives on how they are listing out the priorities, give any indication, where it is heading?
@_NAN_DINI ..
.Twitter CEO himself has said the company can no longer be neutral on political and social issues ..then who can be more concerned about political issues than parliament? Hence the notice to Twitter https://t.co/VNzB2hu6ak— mandar kelkar ?? (@mandarsk) February 13, 2019
What needs 2 b looked at is that there seems to be huge funding by Congress & other parties to try prevent Narendra Modi coming back: Cambridge Analytica style.
It’s clear now that the PM Narendra Modi is a nightmare 4 the Congress & d Opposition & so they are desperate in Struggle for Existence. And there seems to be sudden rush to silence the Right wing and push on artificial popularity of Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra and the ecosystem from opposition in a bid to show their tweets popular, Is that how popularity measured? Is this about what Cambridge Analytica programming has done? Needs to be seen how the Twitter controversy heads & ends in the coming days, leading to the Elections 2019.
**Pictures and Twitter links Courtesy : Twitter
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