Yesterday was a landmark day if you are an Indian and a cricket fan. Sachin Tendulkar played one of the best innings of his life by scoring 200 runs in an ODI innings against South Africa.
But whats even more interesting is that Sachin became a twitter master too owning 3 out of the top 10 trending spots on twitter. The keyword that ended up trending the most was #sachinisgod. That too not just for an hour or two but almost 4 hours all through South Africa’s second innings. The reason this is interesting is because it points towards both the growing Indian population on twitter and the growing use of twitter during events such as these.
Its not only Sachin’s double ton but also during the Carlton Towers fire incident the term Carlton towers was trending and Most news channels picked up the images first put out on twitter by Jackerhack who was in the building at the time of the incident.
All in all this tells me that the sheer openness of twitter makes it a more public platform and therefore gives it far more publicity than facebook in India. With all the bollywood celebs right from King Khan to Junior Bachchan tweeting away to glory and the trending topics starting to become more Indian its only time before twitter becomes a serious influencer of the media in India (if it hasn’t already become).
PS: Trending topics on twitter are global so #sachinisgod was being seen by the world on twitter!
Last night I saw a news channel displaying the twitter activity around Sachin by some users, here are some updates by Vivek oberoi and Prity zinta http://twitter.com/vivek_oberoi/status/9575366160
http://twitter.com/realpreityzinta/status/9575311338
I am waiting for the day when twitter will be down because of over capacity and, they will officially announce “Dude to extremely high number of tweets from India, our server went down”
What your analysis doesn’t tell is, when sachin scored 200, USA was not yet up. Thats one of the reasons while Cartlon Towers also made it to trending. I’m not denying your points, but this is one of the main reasons why this happens
Well no doubt that he is real master blaster. 200 runs are not easy to score against the team like south africa. He will be remembered for all what he done for cricket and with cricket. Truly a world class trophy.Congratulations
The social media users have really caught up to twitter and so when SACHIN’s news was every where in the News, it was bound to be spread in twitter as well, and it was indeed a big news,http://tinyurl.com/yj3cxdt
ppl… this man is a legend. india is proud that it gave birth to sachin. GO ON MASTER BLASTER,GO ON.
very true but he is really a big hero for Indian cricket fans and rest of the world .And its true he is little master .
lets hope he plays for more years to come and do some real magic for us .
A big Sachin fan no i am more than a fan i am an Ac .
…GoD….Wntd..2..PlaY…criCkEt.. AnD…so..SaChin..RaMesH..TeNduLkaR..Ws..BoRn….!!!:):):)
With a short stature and nimble footwork he cut, drove, hooked and pulled, fast bowlers and spinners were both treated with disdain, everything about him had an aura, even his stance and for 20 years one name is synonymous with Indian cricket, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He has people’s expectations reach a crescendo when he came out to bat and carries the hopes of a nation of 1.15 billion for all these years. With a compact, imposing stance and his peerless ability to pierce gaps in the field marked by sublime timing was indeed a sight to behold. It would be safe to say that cricket watching experience would not be complete until you have seen an innings by an in-form Sachin Tendulkar.
sachin born to build sensations in world cricket……………
cricket is religion,sachin is the only a GOD of cricket.
it’s wonderful to see that match. . .sachin will rock again nd again. .sachin is the good inspiration for all youngstars
Even Rahul Mahajan became trending topic 3 days ago ..