Tony Abbott is riding a wave of popularity.
With 18-34 year olds from New Delhi, that is.
Here’s the run-down:
Tony Abbott was in a selfie with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his tour to Australia.
PM Modi posted the photo on his Facebook and Twitter accounts (he has the social media popularity of a Kardashian).
Tony Abbott’s popularity had a massive spike in countries outside of Australia.
Comedy duo the Bondi Hipsters called Tony out on it with this post:
Tech-savvy Aussies have been wondering if Tony has been buying Facebook likes (that’s actually a thing you can do – usually they are false profiles created by companies who charge a fee such as $50 for 10,000 Likes). More followers started accusing him on social media:
News.
“It is no secret that the Prime Minister hosted a number of world leaders in recent times, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These visits attracted large international audiences to the Prime Minister’s social media channels, thus generating a spike in organic engagement with the page.”
Evidently, they were telling the truth, because the spike in Abbott’s online popularity increased immediately after the picture was released. He’s a popular guy, that Indian Prime Minister.
If anyone wants to get a better social media presence, you know what to do. Don’t buy likes. Befriend Narendra Modi instead.
Top Comments
In recent days, for the G20 summit, the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has attended Australia. For those that dont know, Modi is the most loved person in India, he is backed by every person in India. A lot of young people in India actively support Modi. When Modi came to Australia, he received a warm welcome from Abbott, for this reason, a lot of Indians have liked Abbott's facebook page.
Modi's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/na...
Abbott's facebook likes trend according to zoomsphere:http://i.imgur.com/e0ifdpj.jpg
Tony Abbott's two facebook posts highlighting that he has a lot of Modi fans browsing his profile:
https://www.facebook.com/To...
https://www.facebook.com/To...
The above two posts have a lot more likes than Abbott's other posts. You can view Abbott's other posts at https://www.facebook.com/Tony Abbott
Seems that Abbott did not cheat into buying likes. I dont think there is anything fishy here.
Source: Indian, entire family in India liked abbott's fb after they saw him with modi for G20.
Definitely bought! No-one in the party would admit to doing that - a third party would organise. Very strategic however in this day and age naive to think someone wouldn't figure it out:-)
i dont think so... i am an indian,,,,, sharing dais with modi willl invite likes from indians.....even if i put my status "modi" here... it will generate likes..
Wow - we Australians cannot imagine ever loving our leaders that much! Well, at least not all of us at the same time! :)
seems australians are having problem with Abott as his govt has given an indian company clearance to mine coal which acc to most people would lead to environmental degradation ..... + modi's got haters too.... though lovers by far outnumber them...:)
That's only the tip of the iceberg of why Abbott is unpopular - you could pretty much name any government area and he's got haters.
I hate him too.