'Twitter in Pakistan infested with fake accounts'

JournalismPakistan.com | Published 6 years ago

ISLAMABAD - Umar Saif, a former head of Punjab Information Technology Board, has maintained that Twitter in Pakistan is infested with fake accounts.

Saif, currently serving as an advisor on SDGs for UN, tweeted: “Twitter in Pakistan is fast becoming the equivalent of rent-a-crowd for political jalsas ...”

Twitter in Pakistan is fast becoming the equivalent of rent-a-crowd for political jalsas ... https://t.co/g7CVp9ZOt3
— Umar Saif (@umarsaif) May 1, 2019

Earlier, he tweeted that less than 1% Pakistanis use Twitter. “Less than 0.6% of Pakistanis actively use Twitter (~1.2 million monthly active users). Surprisingly, while social media usage grew in Pakistan, twitter saw 8% drop last quarter. Twitter in Pakistan is infested with fake accounts, specifically to abuse this medium & genuine users.”

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