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Twitter Trends [India] – What do they really mean?
On this World Social Media Day, let us look at what is considered as one of the most important metrics in the current social media world: Twitter Trends.
What Twitter wants it to mean – A top 10 list of the most important topics being discussed or talked about on Twitter related to India and in India at any given point in time. This is how most people view India’s Twitter trends or even search for Twitter trends in India to know what is trending on Twitter in India.
What it means – A top 10 list of keywords and hashtags where social media agencies, political parties and PR companies have begged, borrowed, stolen, or outrightly manipulated data and tweets to make their campaign on the top 10. This has made Twitter trends India less about authenticity and more about manufactured hype.
How customers look at them – My campaign didn’t trend twitter. It didn’t work.
How agencies look at them – So much engagement, so much authentic growth. But it didn’t trend. Client won’t be happy. For them, trends twitter equals success, even when it’s not organic.
How politicians, movie stars look at them – Just give hashtag to my media center with 500 people and send SMS to my 20K supporters who have pledged to do 2 tweets each on any campaign I want to twitter trending.
Being an avid researcher on Twitter, we can confirm that more than 5 out of the 10 trends are manipulated and forced. For analysts and commentators, including voices like kapil gupta twitter, the big question is whether these manipulated metrics can really define influence.
Unless there is more control put in to ensure authenticity, this notion of twitter trend being the de-facto standard for true conversations or for the success of a campaign will fade away. As of now, a lot of marketeers are starting to move towards more relevant metrics rather than just chasing trends twitter.
