Shashi Tharoor Wrote To Elon Musk Over 'X' Follower Count. This Happened
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Shashi Tharoor wrote that many X users have noticed his stagnant follower count and flagged it to him.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor once wrote to 'X' boss Elon Musk about his dropping follower count on the microblogging site, but received a lawyer's response flatly denying that there was a problem. 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
The Thiruvananthapuram MP and renowned author, known for his engaging social media posts, wrote that many X users have noticed his stagnant follower count and flagged it to him. This, Mr Tharoor said, had prompted him to go public about the issue.
The Congress leader was responding to one such post that questioned why Mr Tharoor's follower count was stuck at 8.4 million despite his popularity among people from different fields.
