Rynaa Grover, Joyojeet Pal (Cite Grover, Rynaa, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. Does Twitter Impact Electoral Outcomes of Candidates: Evidence from West Bengal 2021 Assembly Elections Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/twitterwb)     The answer to precisely that question is straightforward. No. But does Twitter matter for campaigns? Very likely, and there are a number of things that suggest that…

Arshia Arya, Gazal Shekhawat, Joyojeet Pal (Cite Arya, Arshia, Shekhawat, Gazal, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. Twitter Influencing During the Second Wave Covid Crisis in India Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/twittercovid2) We analysed the changes in following of Twitter accounts originating in India, to examine the patterns that help understand the role of influencers during this period. Here is a…

Rynaa Grover and Joyojeet Pal (Cite Grover, Rynaa, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. What Drives Twitter Following of Indian Politicians? Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/westbengal) Social Media Activity We plotted the social media activity for the key parties of West Bengal in the run up to the 2021 assembly elections. For this, we measured the activity of politicians who hold…

Arshia Arya and Joyojeet Pal   (Cite A Arya, J Pal. 2021. What Drives Twitter Following of Indian Politicians? Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/TwitterFollowingPoliticians) We traced the social media following of politicians in India between December 2020 and March 2021, the key phase of the farmer protests in India as well as the run up to several assembly…

Arshia Arya, Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal     We conducted a preliminary study of influence networks on Koo, and their relationship to activity on Twitter. Here are a few findings. First, we find that the design of the Koo app makes for more propagation of individual accounts. The landing page encourages users to follow other…

Cite: Sharma, A. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian Twitter and its anti-nationals. Available online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/antinationals Recent references to the farmer protests as “anti-national”, including by major political actors, raises questions of how the term has been used. Much recent work has considered ways in which the notion of being antinational has been attached to various forms of dissent [1] [2] [3], but also…

Cite: Negi, H. and Pal, J. (2020) Twitter in Bihar Politics. Available online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/twitterbihar We summarize the key trends with Twitter use among politicians in Bihar. Language We see that for all the parties, tweeting in Hindi gets significantly more retweets than when they tweet in English. The size of the colored bubbles in the scatter…