Shashi Tharoor's friends in Dubai came up with the idea of a website to support him over a hot cuppa
Shashi Tharoor's friends in Dubai came up with the idea of a website to support him over a hot cuppa
Falling out of favour with the government and party, after consistently embarrassing both by his tweets and
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remarks, Shashi Tharoor still remains the darling of netizens.
Shiraz Gidwani, Chief Executive of Dubai-based Iktara World has launched the "Save Shashi Tharoor" campaign on various social networking websites and a dedicated site with the same name in support of the beleaguered Kerala politician.
"SupportTharoor.org was born when ardent supporters and friends of Tharoor sat together over coffee and pondered over the fate of a Member of Parliament and Union Minister who had made sincere efforts to reach out to the people of India with his thoughts," Gidwani told MiD DAY over the phone from Dubai.
"The objective was to gift Shashi Tharoor a collection of beautiful thoughts and comments by people who now wish to reach out to him.
At 2130 IST on Saturday March 17, 2010 the idea was born. Roles were divided and friends pooled together their contacts. It should be noted that even at that late hour, every person that was approached offered his or her support and services. As time was of the essence, a professional social networking firm known to the founders was brought on board to help design and implement the concept," Gidwani said, elaborating on how the website came into being.
"Work began on the project at 0000 IST on Sunday March 18 and after working overnight (spanning several countries, continents and multiple designers and operators) we were through by 2000 IST, the same day. This included registering and hosting the domain, as well as propagating the servers. The support page was released at 2030 IST on Sunday March 18, 2010," Gidwani, who has worked with Tharoor at the UN, said giving specifics
| Speechless |
| Shashi Tharoor has not tweeted for almost four days. His last tweet came 48 hours before he quit as a union minister following the IPL row. The former Minister of State for External Affairs, who had earlier apologised for not tweeting for two days, has this time deserted the microblogging site for over 90 hours without a word. However, the number of followers has been increasing by the day, as reported by MiD DAY on Monday. |
What started as a discussion and concern for a friend over coffee turned into a roaring success on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as the number of pledges has already crossed 9272 with in a few hours of SupportTharoor.org going live.
The website is drawing a majority of its traffic from India but netizens from 195 cities across 63 countries have also been logging in. India tops the chart in terms of traffic followed by United States and the UAE.
7.3 lakhu00a0Number of followers of Shashi Tharoor on Twitter
195 Number of cities from where netizens have been logging on to SupportTharoor.org
23 Number of hours in which SupportTharoor.org was conceptualized, designed and made live
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