25 tweets per minute, efforts to defame Maha Vikas Aghadi: Congress

Solidifying claims of misuse of social media platforms to defame the Maha Vikas Aghadi government and the Mumbai Police, the Congress said that some of the Twitter handles were posting at the rate of 25 posts per minute.

The Mumbai Police has registered two FIRs into the alleged use of social media profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to defame the top cops and government functionaries.

A delegation of Congress comprising its state unit General Secretary and spokesperson Sachin Sawant, Dr Raju Waghmare, Ratnakar Singh called on Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh and handed over a memorandum.

“There is an unusual pattern in this, no ordinary user of Facebook or Twitter can post or tweet 40,000 posts in 3 months.