by Chakresh Mishra
Apr 7, 2009Indian politics and twitter : Do you follow me?
Do you know, what twitter is? Let us continue with our generic political education for Indian netizens. (if you know what twitter is then skip intro paragraph)
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Very simple and minimal. And believe it or not – best tool for passing some quality time online (I know, you guys work so hard in your office 
). Twitter is biggest phenomenon since google, having 2000% growth every week, don’t miss the bus.
How twitter works:
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS (receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon and Feedalizr. The service is free to use over the web, but using SMS may incur phone services provider fees.You can send your messages using the Twitter website directly, as a single SMS alert, or via a third-party application such as Twirl, Snitter, or the Twitterfox add-on for Firefox. (See below for links to Twitter tools and applications.)Your tweets are displayed on your profile page, on the home page of each of your followers, and in the Twitter public timeline (unless you disable this in your account settings.
Twitter and Indian politics:
We all know that Indian politics is going tech-savy from this election. All major parties have websites and mostly all of them have blogs. Some prominent leaders have started to blog also. It is a great way to connect directly with the people. Mr. Obama of US of A led the way for politicians in online marketing.
Now after phenomenal rise of twitter, Indian political class can not ignore it any more. You must have noticed blue cute bird on right side of Promise of Reason blog, that is twitter link. You might have noticed sideblog, where I post links I like, that is through twitter only. So, you must have got an idea of usability of twitter. Here are few twitter accounts to start with related to Indian politics, just create an account and click on follow on any particular account:
- Me, Chakresh Mishra (self promotion, yeah) @chakreshm
- consolidate source of Indian news @headlinesindia
- Barack Obama @barackObama
- Narendra Modi @Narendra_Modi
- SM Krishna @SMKrishnaCong
- Bhartiya Janata Party @bjp_
- Indian National Congress @JoinINC
- For all Hindi blogs @chitthajagat
Enjoy it, It will be fun gauranteed. 
Post any other Indian politics related twitter accounts to follow in comment, if you want……
May 31st, 2009 at 3:41 AM
Whoa… this site is pretty awesome
your layout is really well designed, and your blogs are (judging from what i’ve read) very interesting. heehee… consider yourself favorited. 
April 24th, 2009 at 10:20 AM
The PM game has started even before the results are out. “Allies” of congres don’t want any congres led govt. No MMS, “Yuvaraj” et all. So what is going to be the stand of “secular” forces. The quenn definitely can’t allow the “kingdom” to go away. The “Yuvaraj” is ready. The “regent” may be a bit upset. But I think either way it is a game of political space. All the “secular” forces fight for same vote bank and always out to prove that my shirt is whiter than yours. Looks like if “Queen” is intelligent she would prefer to sit in opposition rather than concede any political space to other “secular” parties. In that case unless BJP gets more than 170 on its own it would find it difficult to lead and we shall be left with a rag tag coalition. So now it is upto voters to give BJP atleast 170-180 seats so that we have a stable govt
April 9th, 2009 at 12:43 PM
We have collected Indian politicians twitters at http://explore.oneindia.in/govt/politics/politicians/twitter/
April 8th, 2009 at 6:38 PM
And Hari, Need feedback about TamilNadu on South India Forum.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Dear Hari, congress would get less than 100 seats this time.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:26 PM
For the NDA to come to power they must get over 215 seats and also that the Congress must get less 125 seats on their own. That would enable the BJP to convince the ‘floaters’ of the stability of the Govt.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Great Video!!!!
There may Not be A Wave, but certainly There is An UnderCurrent in Favour of Nationalist Forces and Only BJP Led NDA Can give A Nationalist Government
April 8th, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Guys this was the video i was mentioning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJW47kmj9M
Its really g8!! I was lucky to see the same a week back, Do comment on how you feel
April 8th, 2009 at 3:22 PM
I have NO Doubt that NDA Will get between 220-250 Seats
April 8th, 2009 at 2:18 PM
I feel NDA getting 220 seats should be enough to get into power.
AIADMK+ 25 seats, TRS+TDP/TRS+PRP 18/12 SEATS…BJD-9 seats and many independents and small parties like BNP(5 SEATS) Will support Advani
April 8th, 2009 at 2:06 PM
@shanthesh
done
@raj
somehow I have a feeling that our beloved sardar ji is going to pull it off this time. with the help of left of-course, as they will support UPA “to keep communal bjp out of power”
just a gut feeling. what else to say, there is no countrywide wave to change the scene very drastically. Some places BJP is gaining, some places, it is loosing. But if NDA wants to come to power, it has to rely on itself to get 250 seats atleast.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:58 PM
And also the politics party logic of Taradevi would have been the winner if she was congress candidate is completely Illogical.My hometown is in same constituency, and if she was the candidate then BJP would have won by more than1 lakh margin, Now as Mr hegde is the new candidate, BJP Would win by magrin of around 60,000-80,000 votes
April 8th, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Thats true and 25 seats is really out of imagination..Because doesnt have base in Mandya,Hassan ,Chamarajanagar seats.It would be a miracle if we win these seats… Scoring 25/25 in the remaining seats is surely a day dream..I said 16 seats are 100% sure seats, We still have chance to increase our tally upto 23 seats..
SO according to latest prediction
BJP 16-23
Cong 1-7
JDS 4-5
April 8th, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Politics Party, on the other hand has given BJP 25 Out of 28 Seats Santeesh Bhai!!!
And Politics Party is NOT A Pro BJP Site
April 8th, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Hi CHakresh,
I have updated the excel sheet with latest developments in Karnataka, Can you please update the blog.
Bad news is that BJP sure seats reduced from 18 to 16 where as JDS is increasing its minimum tally to 4 seats…
Looks like to get 20 seats in Karnataka BJP has to work really harder, ( BJP Govt hasnt worked harder to improve the state condition,atleast let them work hard now, (Ofcourse few exceptional ministers are there who are doing great job))
April 7th, 2009 at 12:41 PM
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