Anurag Kashyap’s Twitter followers drops automatically, leaves many baffled

Team Udayavani, Dec 22, 2019, 2:10 PM IST

Mumbai: Many filmmakers and actors are supporting the protests happening across India opposing the passage of the Citizenship Act and NRC. While many of these celebrities have been sharing their opinion on Twitter, few actors have joined the protesters on the streets as well.

After a few months of silence on twitter, Director Anurag Kashyap on Saturday tweeted in support of the students amid the violent incidents that took place at Jamia University and criticized the legislation.

Many Twitter followers have supported his tweets and opposed them as well.

In the midst of all this, the director later tweeted that his followers dropped to 76.3K from over 5 Lakh in a few hours.

And @TwitterIndia has drastically reduced my followers .. pic.twitter.com/hHziSZk9tK

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) December 21, 2019

Many of his followers shared screenshots from their account asked twitter “how did this get unfollowed?” and replied Anurag that never unfollowed him yet his profile doesn’t appear in their following list.

How did @anuragkashyap72 lost more than 450K followers ?

@TwitterIndia is it because of his political stand againt Modi ? pic.twitter.com/yX3LK0P2BS

— Abhijeet Dipke ?? (@abhijeet_dipke) December 21, 2019

Yes, I was also following u. It shows not following now.

— Nirmala Tai (@Vishj05) December 21, 2019

Did Twitter decide to unfollow @anuragkashyap72 on my behalf?!

Is it a way to silence those who are speaking up on #CAA_NRC_Protests? pic.twitter.com/yXJj9VU91Y

— Rwitoban (@rwitoban) December 21, 2019

The interesting fact is, the number of followers is rose up to 262.6k followers on Sunday, December 22.