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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Even Sushma believes in Social media


Sushma Swaraj, BJP member of parliament and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, India has become the talk of the twitter. Her tweets, which according to her, is a similitude of her unedited and unpublished autobiography, is leveraging on the power of Social networking to gather support for her move.
The amazon leader is on her way to capital city of Jammu and Kashmir for hoisting Indian national flag in  Republic day (26 Jan) which is tomorrow. The climax of this story arrives when she along with team including Arun, was stopped and prohibited to do so. She is live tweeting the entire incident. Her latest tweet mentions, “We have been stopped, Vande Mataram', followed by 'We are moving in groups of 500 people each. We are holding tricolor. Bharat mata ki Jai - Vande maatram. We are Arun, Anantha,Shanta& Anurag.'
This has generated reaction from across the twitterati. The fact to be observed is that in a span of few hours, her followers list increased from 300 to more than 11,700, while she is following just one profile. This is her second account, exclusively for journalists.
Sushma started tweeting on 25 November with her first tweet saying, “Friends, this is Sushma Swaraj, MP and leader of Opposition. We hope to keep in touch on twitter.”

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