Facebook, Twitter and Google have seen substantial increase in their India traffic and usage.
Facebook started working on the Indian elections towards the end of last year. This includes launch of election tracker so that people can see in real time. Elections have helped Twitter expand in India.
http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/social-media-changes-face-of-indian-general-elections-518991
- Facebook has now 100 million users in India -its largest outside the US
- Twitter has more than doubled since January this year.
- In 2009, Sashi Tharoor was the only Indian politician to have a Twitter account and had 6,000 followers.
- Tharoor is now the second most popular politician on Twitter with 2.16 million followers, after Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate with 3.89 million followers.
- Modi now also has nearly 14 million fans of Facebook. Barack Obama is the only other politician to have more Facebook fans than Modi.
Facebook started working on the Indian elections towards the end of last year. This includes launch of election tracker so that people can see in real time. Elections have helped Twitter expand in India.
http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/social-media-changes-face-of-indian-general-elections-518991
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