Thursday 15 December 2016

This country went crazy tweeting about sports in 2016

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While the rest of the world chattered about Brexit, the US Presidential Elections and Pokémon GO, India seemed to care largely about sports. And this is barely surprising.

Twitter’s just-released year-in-review reveals that sports dominated other conversation categories by a mile. India has always been a cricket-obsessed nation, but its people are now warming up to other sports as well.

Much in line with global trends, #Rio2016 was the most used hashtag in India too as the country’s ace badminton player #PVSindhu went on to bag an Olympic silver. Sindhu managed to bring together a nation of cricket fanatics to root for her, in turn, becoming a popular hashtag herself. Read more...

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