Election Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Himanshu Mishra
Updated Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:34 AM IST
Summary
Five phases of elections have been held in Uttar Pradesh. Now there are two phases left. For a long time after the announcement of the election dates, the Election Commission had banned rallies and meetings. Due to this, the entire focus of political parties was on social media.
This time the election is being fought on social media along with the ground. Be it Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath or SP chief Akhilesh Yadav or BSP chief Mayawati. Everyone has used social media with full vigor for their promotion. Some less and some more, but all political parties remained active on social media. From the announcement of election dates on January 8 to February 28, we did a tweet analysis.
For this, we searched the Twitter handles of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi. Read full report…
Yogi Adityanath has made 1800 tweets since the announcement of election dates. These do not include those tweets, which have been retweeted by CM Yogi. Yogi had created an account on Twitter in September 2015. Since then, 16.4 thousand tweets have been made from his account. CM Yogi has more than 1.79 crore followers, while he has followed 50 accounts. He has increased 43 lakh followers in 51 days.
SP President Akhilesh Yadav has been on Twitter since July 2009. Till January 8, he had followed 24 people, while he had 1.53 crore followers. Till February 28, Akhilesh unfollowed an account. This account belonged to Australia’s MP Jody McKay. Meanwhile, the SP chief has made a total of 190 tweets. A total of 5071 tweets have been made since 2009. He has increased 46 lakh followers in 51 days. BSP chief Mayawati created her account in October 2018. Since then, he has got 2.5 million followers. At the same time, Mayawati has followed only one account and that is of Twitter support. Between January 8 and February 28, 28 lakh followers have increased on the account of the BSP chief. During this, he has made a total of 86 tweets. In the last 51 days, his two lakh followers have increased. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi had created a Twitter account in February 2019. Since then, he has tweeted 1984. Of these, 164 tweets have been made between January 8 and February 28. Priyanka has followed 191 people. Whereas within the last 51 days, Priyanka’s three lakh followers have increased.
Expansion
This time the election is being fought on social media along with the ground. Be it Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath or SP chief Akhilesh Yadav or BSP chief Mayawati. Everyone has used social media with full vigor for their promotion. Some less and some more, but all political parties remained active on social media. From the announcement of election dates on January 8 to February 28, we did a tweet analysis.
For this, we searched the Twitter handles of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi. Read full report…