BJP seemed apprehensive over Rahul Gandhi’s tweets and forced Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti to hit out at the Congress Vice President by trying to link it with twitter accounts in Russia, Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
Ms Irani attached with her tweet – “Bots behind rise in Rahul Gandhi’s twitter popularity?” – a news report that linked the use of twitter bots to increased retweets.
A Twitterbot is a type of bot software that controls a Twitter account via the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface). The bot software may autonomously perform actions such as tweeting, retweeting, liking, following, unfollowing, or direct messaging other accounts.
Divya Spandana, who heads the Social Media and Digital Communications wing of the Congress, hit back at Ms Irani and termed the news story as “factually wrong”.
“Why do we need them when we have you?” she said in response to Ms Irani’s tweet.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a Rajya Sabha MP who is part of NDA, also took potshots at Mr Gandhi.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” he tweeted.
Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP’s national Information & Technology, targeted Mr Gandhi in a series of tweets.
He also hit out at Divya Spandana. “Congress social media head was on a PR overdrive on how she re-launched Rahul Gandhi.. She deployed fake bots!”
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