President Kovind's Twitter debut

Did President Ram Nath Kovind suddenly acquire 3 million followers the day he took charge as head of state? Republic TV's story claimed he acquired that many in one hour, Zee News said he "earned" 3.25 million followers in minutes, TOI and others said something similar. All that happened apparently is that  those following the @RashtrapatiBhvn account  when Mukherjee was president automatically got transferred to the new president's account when he inherited the handle. The former president's tweets are now archived under @POI13 and a statement from Twitter said that all those who had been following @RashtrapatiBhvn would now automatically follow this account and @POI13, unless they unfollowed one of these. (BoomLive and altnews.in)