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First tweet (not posted by a political handle or advertisments) in our data collection with #loksabhaelections2019! First tweet with inked status! #Elections2019 #SocialMedia #VotingRound2 #IndiaElections2019 #ProfGiri #Research #TNElection2019 #OruviralPuratchi

From 0700 - 0830, we have 20,019 tweets (original, retweets, quotes). Around 9,075 unique users posted these tweets with 2,200 users posting original tweets. Most popular hashtags: #LokSabhaElections2019 14774, #TNElection2019 6153, #Elections2019, 3165, #Ajith 2342, #Thala 2186

Most active users with their number of tweets (original, retweets, quotes) posted,
('@RanjanaSiroha', 76),
('@ThalaDhas', 70),
('@Ebinson18', 64),
('@PsYcho_bwy', 61),
('@Thala15111', 59)

Most mentions in this period with their count
('@PTTVOnlineNews', 1083),
('@News18TamilNadu', 1056),
('@rameshlaus', 738),
('@BJP4India', 683),
('@galattadotcom', 464),
('@actorvijay', 463),
('@narendramodi', 428),
('@RIAZtheboss', 357),
('@KollyBuzz', 351),

@PrakasamLingan @APRAMEYAC

We find 1,491 @instagram posts with #firstvote, 432 with #myfirstvoteformodi and 378 with #myfirstvote. @gauri_tidke @being_hectic.ds did the first posts for #firstvote #myfirstvote.
Posts:
instagram.com/p/BwYTb0eJTQh/

instagram.com/p/BwYTB8bjhjv/

#VotingRound2 #IndiaElections2019

1st tweet in our data collection with #MyFirstVote by @Deepak17DS_Here

https://twitter.com/Deepak17DS_Here/status/1118702769551101952

#VotingRound2 #IndiaElections2019 #Elections2019 #OruviralPuratchi

First 3 @verified handles who got inked today! #VoteMaaDi
#KarnatakaPolls #TNElection2019 #OruviralPuratchi #VoteForChange #VotingRound2 \c @monikamanchanda @tinucherian @chandrarsrikant

1st

https://twitter.com/monikamanchanda/status/1118693382149353472

2nd

https://twitter.com/tinucherian/status/1118696080462323712

3rd

https://twitter.com/chandrarsrikant/status/1118700397281955840

1,611 candidates, 95 constituencies, 11 states and 1 UT. Graph of all constituencies with the number of candidates in each. Interactive version: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019… Live blog: bit.ly/phase2-liveblog #KarnatakaPolls #TNElection2019 #OruviralPuratchi #VotingRound2 #Phase2

168 parties in 95 constituencies. 88 / 168 parties have only a single candidate contesting from the party. Graph: Parties with the number of candidates. Interactive version: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019… #VotingRound2
#Phase2
#VoteForChange
#VotingRound2
#LokSabhaElections2019

Hourly trend of hashtags (excluding #LokSabhaElections2019 ) until 1500hrs. Interactive version: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019… #IndiaBoleModiDobara #Elections2019 #VotingRound2 #GoVoteTN #Vijay #Ajith #EveryVoteForModi #OruviralPuratchi #TNElection2019

Hourly popular mentions until 1500hrs. Interactive graph: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019… @ARMurugadoss @rameshlaus @actorvijay @News18TamilNadu @PTTVOnlineNews @Suriya_offl @dpradhanbjp @BJP4Odisha @TNelectionsCEO @BJP4India @AmitShah @narendramodi #LokSabhaElections2019 #Elections2019

In #Phase1 2 constituencies had neither BJP nor INC contesting, for #Phase2 this number is 33. Enlarged table: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019…
#LokSabhaElections2019
#TNElection2019
#OruviralPuratchi
#VoteForChange
#VotingRound2
#Phase2
#VoteMaaDi
#KarnatakaPolls

Graph showing (for tweets from 7am) the time taken between retweets and their original tweets. Min: 2 sec, Max: 9.12, Avg: 1.39 hrs. Interactive version: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019… #VotingRound2 #Phase2
#KarnatakaPolls #LokSabhaElections2019 #TNElection2019
#OruviralPuratchi

Media mentions for BJP INC Rahul Modi Congress in our data. 7am - 5pm. Interactive graph: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019… Live blog: bit.ly/phase2-liveblog \c @thewirehindi @DDNewsLive @ndtv @htTweets @TV9Bharatvarsh @bsindia @firstpost @uniindianews @TheQuint @IndiaToday @abpnewstv

Rest: @JagranNews @IndianExpress @Outlookindia @QuintHindi @timesofindia @the_hindu @IndiaSpend @BTVI @airnewsalerts @CNNnews18 @scroll_in @DeccanChronicle @ZeeNews @thewire_in @Zee_Hindustan @ians_india @indiatvnews @BJPLive @thehansindiaweb @newslaundry @MumbaiMirror @TimesNow

280,256 tweets, 228,588 retweets, 84,659 unique users, 45,372 original tweets, 6,296 quotes. Blog: bit.ly/phase2-liveblog Twitter thread: bit.ly/phase2-twitter… #TNElection2019 #OruviralPuratchi #MyVoteForCongress
#VotingRound2 #Phase2 #KarnatakaPolls #LokSabhaElections2019

Out of the 1,268 verified handles for whom we are collecting data, 32 handles contested in Phase 2 elections, and out of these 32, 15 posted their inked tweets. See their inked tweets: precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2019/04/1… #TNElection2019 #OruviralPuratchi #LokSabhaElections2019

Here is the #heatmap of candidates (1,611 of them) in each constituencies. Interactive version of the map: labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/elections-2019… Full live blog: bit.ly/phase2-liveblog #VotingRound2 #Phase2
#VoteMaaDi #KarnatakaPolls #LokSabhaElections2019 #India #Map

6,689 unique posts #instagram 7am – 7pm. 1,057,564 likes and 15,197 comments. #average likes = 158.1, avg. comments = 2.3. Top 5 hashtags with posts: #vote: 3680, #election: 1988, #india: 1069, #voting: 1052, #voteforchange: 727. Pic: Wordcloud of posts. #LokSabhaElections2019

To understand the content in the posts, we drew the word cloud of all the 280,256 posts that we collected during 7am - 7pm. Here is the world cloud that we generated. #TNElection2019 #OruviralPuratchi #VotingRound2 #Phase2
#VoteMaaDi #KarnatakaPolls #LokSabhaElections2019