Thursday, June 5, 2014

Indias Twitter elections: Will it now become a governance tool? | ummid.com

Indias Twitter elections: Will it now become a governance tool? | ummid.com

During the US presidential elections, the Twitter blog referred to the polls as a "Twitter election". For India, the 2014 general elections were truly its first Twitter elections. A few years ago, a tweet by Shashi Tharoor, then minister of state for external affairs, created ripples in the Indian political domain and got him into political trouble.