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Analysed 42,000 tweets, tweets from the last 99 weeks.
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23,666 | 56.3% |
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9,446 | 22.5% |
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4,886 | 11.6% |
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2,301 | 5.5% |
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944 | 2.2% |
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| Top Tweet Types | Count | % |
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| Tweet | 37,103 | 88.3% |
| Reply | 3,280 | 7.8% |
| Retweet | 1,577 | 3.8% |
| Quote | 244 | 0.6% |
| Top Content Types | Count | % |
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| URL | 40,434 | 96.3% |
| Photo | 2,087 | 5.0% |
| Video | 889 | 2.1% |
| GIF | 6 | 0.0% |
| Top Domains in URLs | Count | % |
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24,375 | 86.9% |
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1,941 | 6.9% |
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1,510 | 5.4% |
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100 | 0.4% |
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32 | 0.1% |
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23 | 0.1% |
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21 | 0.1% |
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20 | 0.1% |
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15 | 0.1% |
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6 | 0.0% |
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| Most Replied to Users | Count | % |
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3,269 | 99.9% |
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1 | 0.0% |
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| Top Words | Count | % |
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| government | 3,783 | 9.0% |
| covid | 2,507 | 6.0% |
| bjp | 2,496 | 5.9% |
| police | 2,489 | 5.9% |
| writes | 2,078 | 4.9% |
| delhi | 2,073 | 4.9% |
| being | 1,651 | 3.9% |
| modi | 1,550 | 3.7% |
| farmers | 1,389 | 3.3% |
| chief | 1,336 | 3.2% |
| reports | 1,263 | 3.0% |
| political | 1,247 | 3.0% |
| during | 1,238 | 2.9% |
| any | 1,198 | 2.9% |
| singh | 1,033 | 2.5% |
| since | 994 | 2.4% |
| pradesh | 988 | 2.4% |
| cases | 957 | 2.3% |
| because | 951 | 2.3% |
| centre | 937 | 2.2% |
| lakhs | 911 | 2.2% |
| before | 896 | 2.1% |
| supreme | 836 | 2.0% |
| rights | 825 | 2.0% |
| leaders | 814 | 1.9% |
| several | 797 | 1.9% |
| district | 797 | 1.9% |
| pandemic | 797 | 1.9% |
| violence | 788 | 1.9% |
| accused | 787 | 1.9% |
| alleged | 774 | 1.8% |
| states | 759 | 1.8% |
| journalism | 753 | 1.8% |
| justice | 753 | 1.8% |
| vaccine | 747 | 1.8% |
| including | 741 | 1.8% |
| according | 740 | 1.8% |
| govt | 729 | 1.7% |
| hindu | 728 | 1.7% |
| laws | 723 | 1.7% |
| arrested | 711 | 1.7% |
| assembly | 703 | 1.7% |
| based | 701 | 1.7% |
| prime | 684 | 1.6% |
| allegedly | 663 | 1.6% |
| elections | 658 | 1.6% |
| called | 643 | 1.5% |
| uttar | 638 | 1.5% |
| security | 637 | 1.5% |
| election | 617 | 1.5% |
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| Top Emojis | Count | % |
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| 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down | 17 | 0.0% |
| 📌 Pushpin | 12 | 0.0% |
| 🧵 E11.0 Thread | 6 | 0.0% |
| 🥳 E11.0 Partying Face | 3 | 0.0% |
| 🚨 Police Car Light | 3 | 0.0% |
| 👏 Clapping Hands | 2 | 0.0% |
| ✨ Sparkles | 2 | 0.0% |
| 🎧 Headphone | 2 | 0.0% |
| 🙌 Raising Hands | 2 | 0.0% |
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"Social and digital media is primarily resorted to expressing personalised opinions more against the judges, rather than a constructive critical appraisal of their judgments. This is what is harming the judicial institution," said Justice Pardiwala.
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Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, described Moscow's capture of the Luhansk region as "a liberation day to celebrate both on Earth and in space." thewire.in/world/russian-…
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The government increasingly targeting several journalists through cases and organisations through raids by enforcement agencies will have a "chilling effect" on the media as a whole, said representatives of seven Delhi-based media associations. thewire.in/media/ominous-…
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"Every accused is entitled to the presumption of innocence. If there's nothing that the police wanted to take from him now on police remand, there's no purpose for keeping him behind bars," said Delhi-based advocate Bharat Chugh. | @_sabahgurmat
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With this, the city police has so far arrested five people in connection with the case, the officials said. thewire.in/law/delhi-poli…
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Sixteen Killed, Including School Children, as Bus Falls Into Gorge in Himachal Pradesh
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USCIRF Commissioner Stephen Schneck noted, "Human rights advocates, journalists, and faith leaders in India face harassment for speaking out and reporting religious freedom conditions. This is not reflective of a country with a history of democracy."
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'Biased Comments': India Reacts to US Body's 'Concern Over Repression of Critical Voices'
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In the 288-member House, 164 MLAs voted for the motion of confidence, while 99 voted against it. thewire.in/politics/mahar…
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Sunday, July 3 accused the Centre of completely reneging on the written promises made to the farmers when the protest was lifted on December 9 last year. thewire.in/politics/skm-a…
SKM Accuses Centre of Going Back on Its Written Promises to Farmers, Plans Further Protests
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The death toll in the landslide at a railway construction site in Manipur's Noney district rose to 42 on July 3, Sunday evening, as eight more bodies were found from under the debris, officials said. thewire.in/environment/ma…
Manipur Landslide Death Toll Rises to 42 Lives, At Least 20 People Still Missing
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On July 4, 2012, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Europe announced they had found the Higgs boson, 48 years after it was predicted. | @1amnerd
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Several questions around Riyaz Attari's association with the BJP remain unanswered, writes Badri Raina. thewire.in/politics/the-c…
The Curious Case of Riyaz Attari: Was He a Double Agent?
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