New Delhi: 135 Crore Indians woke up to celebrate 151st birth Anniversary of Gandhi Ji today, but several were left aghast to witness #NathuramGodseZindabad trending on Twitter.
A Hindu nationalist, Godse assassinated Gandhi on January 30, 1948, at New Delhi’s Birla House, which is now Gandhi Smriti. Godse had shot three bullets into Gandhi’s chest in the presence of thousands of people. He was hanged in 1949.
Here’s how the Twitter Trends work – The Twitter Trends algorithm is based on multiple factors and is “tailored” for based on who the users follow, their interests, and location.
As per Twitter, “This algorithm identifies topics that are popular now, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help you discover the hottest emerging topics of discussion on Twitter. The number of Tweets that are related to the trends is just one of the factors the algorithm looks at when ranking and determining trends”.
Data scientist Gilad Lotan has a different version of explaination: “This algorithm favours sharp spikes rather than gradual sustained growth, and the trends are hence determined by a combination of volume and how much time it takes to create volume.
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