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Apr 13, 2018, 10 tweets

#Kathua twitter activity- how this is social media manipulation and trend management. #Thread

This is the last three months twitter activity of #Kathua hashtag. The crime was discovered and first arrest made on 19th January- so it takes in account the whole timeline. See when the interest peaked?

The Twitter activity started with This tweet according to keyhole.co analysis. The handle belongs to a journalist who works for @ThePrintIndia - which is run by @ShekharGupta #Kathua This was the kindling.

Next influential tweet about #Kathua comes from Barkha. , then @bainjal and then you can see the following order.

These are the handles that chronologically followed tweeting in synchronicity about #Kathua after this dog whistle was sent out from Print Journo of Shekhar Gupta and Barkha of Quint.

Tweet activity of #Kathua started as clockwork with synchronised timing at 2:30 pm (time zone reference may change actual time) on 12th and 13th April. On 12th April by 7:30 pm the activity was dead but by 13th it grew into real people outraging- the manipulation was successful.

I again checked the chronicity of tweets for last 3 months- to include the full timeline of the crime's course. No significant interest in twitter outrage before trigger on 9th and 10th April. #Kathua

This is the world-map of influence about #Kathua tweets in last 3 months. Interestingly, #Russia features here!

As I give it some time, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Senegal, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan (naturally!) Phillipines also start lighting up on the tracker #Kathua

I will plug this tweet here to merge the threads. #Kathua

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