Parallax · politics desk · — 22
2 crore followers in a week. One order made the account vanish from your phone, and from nobody else's.
One account, two *screens*
What most people think
A ban took the account down, so the posts are gone and there is nothing left to open.
What the data shows
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The order told X to hide the account inside India and nowhere else. On a phone outside the country every post is still there.
The order covered one account on X. The website and Instagram losses are founder-reported.
ON YOUR PHONE
That remark was on a Friday. Two weeks later a satirical account is a case in the Delhi High Court.
FOURTEEN DAYS
All of that was about one account on X. But the following was counted on Instagram, a different platform, and twenty million is hard to picture.
Within a week of the 16 May launch
~20–22MInstagram followers
A dated range, not a fixed count. Figures vary by platform and by the day.
About two crore followers Twenty million, in the unit we count in
Roughly two and a half times the BJP's Instagram handle And about one and a half times Congress's, on 21 May
THE SIZE
Two crore Instagram followers in a week. The question is where the order landed on that climb, and what it produced.
THE CURVE
That walk happens on paper you never see. These four figures are what the record does show.
THE NUMBERS
One formal order. Here are the five things that could be done to an account, and who can actually do them.
WHO HOLDS WHAT
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