Twitteet is a analytics platform representing ratings, rankings and curated feeds based on Twitter engagement of journalists, news organizations, politicians, sportspersons, celebrities and businessmen.

1. Twitteet
October
2020
Rankings
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2. About Twitteet
Twitteet is a analytics platform representing ratings, rankings and curated
feeds based on Twitter engagement of journalists, news organizations,
politicians, sportspersons, celebrities and businessmen.
Methodology
The Twitteet is using the following methodology to showcase daily
engagement and ranking based on engagement in different respective
categories. Before we explain the methodology, it needs to be understood
that data and analytics are resultant of the methodology. The methodology
defines the data, running analytics on the same data, creates engagement
and ranking information on the front end shown to you.
Click here for Methodology Details
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3. October 2020
Report Summary
Here are the category leaders for key categories:
1. Politicians – Narendra Modi - 72,15,913 Twitter Engagements
2. Bollywood Stars – Sonu Sood - 24,36,601 Twitter Engagements
3. Business Heads – Anand Mahindra - 4,08,882 Twitter Engagements
4. Cricketer – Virat Kohli - 24,65,918 Twitter Engagements
5. Sports Star (non-cricket) – Vijender Singh- 4,27,006 Twitter
Engagements
6. TV Star – Sidharth Shukla - 3,90,901 Twitter Engagements
7. Journalists – Deepak Chaurasia - 18,88,720 Twitter Engagements
8. Founders – Kunal Shah - 60,093 Twitter Engagements
9. Comedians – Kunal Kamra - 11,46,111 Twitter Engagements
10. Regional Cinema Stars – Mahesh Babu - 7,32,964 Twitter
Engagements
11. Authors – Anand Ranganathan - 5,36,874 Twitter Engagements
12. Investors – TV Mohandas Pai - 99,741 Twitter Engagements
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4. TWITTER ENGAGEMENT INDIA
AMONG ALL CATEGORIES
# 1 NARENDRA MODI
72,15,913 TWITTER ENGAGEMENTS
# 3 VIRAT KOHLI
24,65,918 TWITTER ENGAGEMENTS
# 4 SONU SOOD
24,36,601 TWITTER ENGAGEMENTS
# 2 RAHUL GANDHI
35,53,825 TWITTER ENGAGEMENTS

5. Politicians
The remarkable rise of Tejashwi Yadav who clocked over a 1.24 million
engagements in October overshadowing incumbent Bihar CM Nitish Kumar who
managed only 133,879 engagements.
Expectedly, Prime Minster Narendra Modi topped the overall Indian Twitter
engagement rankings with over 7.2 million engagements. Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi at #2 with 3.5 million engagements, UP CM Yogi
Adityanath and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were 3rd and 4th in the Indian Politicians
engagement rankings. Surprising inclusions in the top 10 among politicians were
BJP Spokesperson Dr. Sambit Patra at #8 who clocked a 1.1 million engagements;
Dr. Kumar Vishwas at #5 who got 1.2 million engagements.
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6. Journalists
In the intensively competitive Journalists category, News Nation’s Deepak
Chaurasia topped Twitter engagement with a whopping 1.88 million engagements.
Aaj Tak’s Rohit Sardana was at #2 with 1.1 million engagements followed by
Sushant Sinha with 1.05 million engagements. Veteran journalist and India Today’s
Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai was at # 8 wit6 6.6 lakh engagements and
Rana Ayyub was at #6 with 7.6 lakh engagements.
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7. Bollywood Stars
Sonu Sood’s humanitarian work during the pandemic saw huge resonance on
Twitter where even at a Twitter following of a tenth of super star Shah Rukh Khan
(Sonu Sood’s 4.6 million followers to SRK’s 41.3 million followers) he topped Twitter
engagement among Bollywood Stars with a phenomenal 2.4 million engagements.
The Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan was at #2 with 7.3 lakh engagements.
Akshay Kumar with 6.72 lakh engagements was at #3, and Anupam Kher with
4.74 lakh engagements was at #4. Former Maharashtra CM, the late Vilasrao
Deshmukh’s actor-son Riteish Deshmukh was at #5 with 4.2 lakh engagements.
Pooja Hegde was the surprise entrant into the top 10 with 2.51 lakh engagements.
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8. Business Heads
In the Business Leaders category, Anand Mahindra towers over others with over
4 lakh engagements. RPG Groups chief Harsh Goenka is at #2 with 2.2 lakh
engagements. Chinese mobile phone brands India CEO’s Manu Kumar Jain of
XioMi and RealMe’s Madhav Sheth are at #3 and #4 respectively with 1.5 lakh
and 1.1 lakh engagements respectively. Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji with 49K
engagements is at #5, Biocon’s Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw with 41K engagements at
#6, Marico’s Harsh Mariwala with 24K engagements is at #7, Micromax co-
founder Rahul Sharma with 19K engagements at #8 and Chairman of JSPL and
former MP, Naveen Jindal with 16K engagements is at #9. Google Global CEO
Sundar Pichai with 15K engagements is at #10.
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9. Cricketers
The IPL was the flavour of the season for cricketers where expectedly India
captain and expectant father Virat Kohli topped Twitter engagement with 2.4
million engagements. Suresh Raina was at #2 with 1.9 million engagements. Former
stars Sachin Tendulkar at #3, Harbhajan Singh at #5, and Virendra Sehwag
at #6, actively engage with fans and followers on Twitter with 1.5 million; 6.8
lakh and 6.3 lakh engagements. Aakash Chopra, now a commentator is also
hugely popular and ranks #4 with over 9.65 lakh engagements on Twitter in
October. Perennial favourite Mahendra Singh Dhoni was completely inactive on
Twitter in October despite having more than 8.1 million followers.
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10. Sports Stars non-cricket
Among Indian sports persons, outside of cricket, Olympic medallist and pro-boxer
Vijendra Singh tops with 4.27 lakh engagements. Perhaps the India’s best kept
secret in sports is veteran pistol shooter, coach and sports enthusiast 88-year old
Dadi Chandro Tomar, better known as ‘Shooter Dadi’ from Baghpat, UP. Since
learning to shoot when she was well into her sixties she has attained national fame
as an accomplished shooter having won more than 30 national championships. She
was at #2 in the non-cricket sports category with a phenomenal 2.84 lakh
engagements leaving superstars like Saina Nehwal, Babita Phogat and Jwala
Gutta behind!
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11. Comedians
In other categories, Comedians and Start-up founders made their mark. Among
comedians, Kunal Kamra topped impressively with 1.1 million engagements,
followed by Ashish Chanchlani at #2 with 4.92 lakh engagements, Vir Das at #3
with 3.2 lakh engagements, Atul Khatri at #4 with 2.21 lakh engagements and
Amit Bhadana with 1.1 lakh engagements at #5.
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12. Founders
Cred Founder Kunal Shah lead the Founders category with 60K engagements and
Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma was next with 23K engagements.
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13. TV Stars
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Regional Cinema Actors

14. Authors
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Investors

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