Twitter recorded around 400 mn tweets in 2019 LS polls

Twitter India on Thursday said conversations around the 2019 Lok Sabha elections grew 300 per cent from 2014 to reach 396 million tweets between January 1 and May 23.

During the course of the six weeks of the election from April11 till May 19, national security emerged as the most talked aboutelection-related topic on Twitter, followed by religion, jobs and employment,agriculture, and finally demonetisation.

   

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (@NarendraModi) emerged as themost mentioned figure during the entire course of #LokSabhaElections2019, and@BJP4India handle along with the handles of their National Democratic Alliancemembers took 53 per cent of the mentions on Twitter.

The @INCIndia handle along with the handles of other membersof the United Progressive Alliance received 37 per cent of the mentions.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi and BJP President Amit Shahwere the leaders who were most mentioned after Modi on the platform.

“While English and Hindi remained the dominantlanguages of conversation, we saw a substantial number of Tweets in Tamilfollowed by Gujarati, represented by the use of the Twitter Lok Sabha Electionsemoji hashtags,” Twitter India said in a statement.

Twitter India said it took key steps and action to protectthe integrity of the #LokSabhaElections2019.

“Along with adhering to the social media code ofconduct as part of the Election Commission of India and IAMAI (Internet &Mobile Association of India), we created an elections-specific support portalfor election partners to provide feedback directly to us about issues andconcerns,” the social media platform said. Twitter rolled out a special reporting featurethat enabled users to report any tweets that provided misleading information tovoters during the election, and expanded its Ads Transparency Centre to bringtransparency to political campaign advertising. 

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