

{"id":3645,"date":"2017-07-03T22:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2017-07-03T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:02:33","slug":"adani-group-hired-social-media-influencers-defend-company-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/adani-group-hired-social-media-influencers-defend-company-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Adani Group hired social media influencers to defend the company on Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the announcement of the new taxation system called Goods and Services Tax (GST), Gautam Adani, the Chairman of Adani Group, applauded GST as a game-changer via his Twitter account. He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gautam_adani\/status\/881040285387575297\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;<em>GST to be a game-changer in India&#8217;s ease of doing business &#8211; simplified tax, transparent systems, better compliances #OneNationOneTax<\/em>&#8220;. Promptly came many responses to his tweets reminding him to pay up his debts which stood at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/companies\/5-reasons-why-sbi-s-1bn-lifeline-to-adani-s-australia-project-needs-to-be-questioned-business-standard-news-114111800541_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">72,000 crores<\/a> at the end of September 2014 quarter. Usually, in case of politicians, when they are attacked, party supporters come out to support them on various issues. However, in case of Adani, a set of Twitter accounts started defending him, all of which had nothing to do with the Adani group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/twitter-accounts-defending-adani-never-defaulted.jpg\" alt=\"twitter-accounts-defending-adani-never-defaulted\" width=\"466\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/twitter-accounts-defending-adani-never-defaulted.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/twitter-accounts-defending-adani-never-defaulted-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/twitter-accounts-defending-adani-never-defaulted-286x420.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each one of the six accounts in the screenshot above use similar language\/phrases and consistently used the three hashtags #Adani, #AdaniGroup, #GautamAdani. That indicates that these accounts were given a recipe for the tweets which they were faithfully following. We <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;q=%23AdaniGroup%20since%3A2017-06-30%20until%3A2017-07-02&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">searched<\/a> for others Twitter accounts tweeting along the same lines during the period 30th June 2017 to 2nd July 2017 and we found a few more Twitter accounts that were defending Adani and the pattern matched the tweets in the above screenshot. Twitter acccounts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShriBhivaskar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShriBhivaskar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dare2zak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dare2zak<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShahidsSuperFan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShahidsSuperFan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tweet_Tweet_Raj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Tweet_Tweet_Raj<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nishajg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nishajg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rthakkar11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@rthakkar11<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kp_85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kp_85<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanjayp33862979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sanjayp33862979<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pooja__G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Pooja__G<\/a> were the ones involved in defending Adani during the aforesaid period.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles-1024x391.jpg\" alt=\"influencer-profiles\" width=\"640\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles-1024x391.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles-768x293.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles-696x265.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles-1068x407.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles-1101x420.jpg 1101w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/influencer-profiles.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This same set of Twitter accounts were found supporting Bajaj Finance with the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ThankYouDoc%20list%3Afree_thinker%2Fsocial-media-influencers&#038;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">#ThankYouDoc<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/bajaj_finserv_thankyoudoc.jpg\" alt=\"bajaj_finserv_thankyoudoc\" width=\"526\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/bajaj_finserv_thankyoudoc.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/bajaj_finserv_thankyoudoc-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/bajaj_finserv_thankyoudoc-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same set of Twitter accounts were also promoting the Star Plus soap opera &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23IssPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon%20list%3Afree_thinker%2Fsocial-media-influencers&#038;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Iss Pyar ko Kya Naam Doon<\/em><\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets.jpg\" alt=\"IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets\" width=\"530\" height=\"535\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/IsPyaarKoKyaNaamDoon-tweets-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These Twitter accounts will tweet anything you want, trend any hashtag they are asked for. They are tagged\/emailed\/DMed (DM = Direct Message) when organised campaigns are to be run and detailed instructions are sent over. For eg, Pooja__G in the above tweets is tagged in the following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellite_media\/statuses\/817604758664003584\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/ellite_media.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"762\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/ellite_media.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/ellite_media-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/ellite_media-306x420.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, views on social media are not genuine but those that have been bought and tutored. Corporates and political parties depend on companies who control an army of social media profiles and these profiles tweet based on a prescribed script in order to shape public opinion. While there is nothing illegal about the said activity, it shows the degeneration of social media which was originally meant for genuine people-to-people interactions and not for boilerplate interactions with pre-programmed bots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the announcement of the new taxation system called Goods and Services Tax (GST), Gautam Adani, the Chairman of Adani Group, applauded GST as a game-changer via his Twitter account. He tweeted, &#8220;GST to be a game-changer in India&#8217;s ease of doing business &#8211; simplified tax, transparent systems, better compliances #OneNationOneTax&#8220;. Promptly came many responses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Has Adani Group hired social media influencers to defend the company on Twitter? - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Has Adani Group hired social media influencers to defend the company on Twitter? - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After the announcement of the new taxation system called Goods and Services Tax (GST), Gautam Adani, the Chairman of Adani Group, applauded GST as a game-changer via his Twitter account. 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