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So here it is cut and dry. The French revolution of Twitterverse,
the emancipation of the common man, the triumph of the proletariat.
And all that.
Ok, we jest. However there is one emotion that’s caught us
off guard and that is one of surprise. Since the launch of
the MiD DAY Twitter Indian of the Year award one week ago,
we’re overwhelmed to have received over 6000 votes and have
been the subject of some fierce campaigning on Twitter.
Here are the awaited results – Saad Akhtar, the creator of
the comic strip Fly You Fools has trumped external affairs
minister Shashi Tharoor by 2 per cent and coming in third
was Priyanka Chopra.
| Twitter
Indian of the Year |
| Saad
Akhtar |
34% |
| Shashi
Tharoor |
32% |
| Priyanka
Chopra |
10% |
| Asfaq
Tapia and friends |
5% |
| Mallika
Sherawat |
4% |
| Anand
Mahindra |
4% |
| Gul
Panag |
3% |
| Chetan
Bhagat |
3% |
| Pritish
Nandy |
2% |
| Vir
Sanghvi |
2% |
Delhite Akhtar is the man guilty of expressing an opinion.
It was his sarcasm that prompted author Chetan Bhagat to block
him, leading to the now infamous #chetanblocks tag that cost
the author much goodwill – goodwill that he was fortunate
to recover following his subsequent real life fiasco.
But this is not about that story. This is about how Twitter
has shaped your conversations over coffee, your instant messages
and your social life in cyberspace this year. And we’re proud
to crown a Tweeter, not very different from you, to have been
the small man who made the big noises, 140 characters or less,
this year.
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