A Trending # about Bangalore on Twitter

I was very excited to write about this. Last weekend a trend started on twitter in Bangalore having a hashtag - #Youareabangaloreanif. This hashtag was trending in Bangalore for 2 full days; this was India trending too on one of the days. I think there are people like me still tweeting on this hashtag and made Bangalore very proud. Most of the tweeples in Bangalore tweeted on this. tweeples like ‏@rameshsrivats, ‏@anu_km, ‏@vadakkus, @james_priya, @fakingnews, @blahfamous, @bhatnaturally, @tinucherian etc and many other big and small tweeples started tweeting on this for 2 days. I was one of the tweeple who participated here.

Most of the tweets were on Traffic, Roads, Metro construction, Auto Rickshaws, Language, IT companies and employees, Life styles, Food, weather etc. This hash-tag was initiated by @pal36, as per vadakkus ‏@vadakkus’s blog. I am very thankful to him to start this kind of hashtag which makes me thrillfull to tweet about and also blog about it. He also started for Delhi with hashtag - #youareadelhiaitif, but it never trended like Bangalore tag did.

Commenting funny things about your hometown will always be fun. I started reading most of the tweets which made interested to write on this. Every tweet I read was very funny and interesting which will make you know about your hometown. There are many social media virility on twitter, most of them is paid and to promote their products. The unpaid ones usually are negative ones. But this is a trending campaign which lasted for two days and still happening.

Bangalore is called as Silicon City, Garden city where people are always busy going to offices, schools, colleges, etc. in a busy life people have not time to talk about the city and interested to know about the city. The visitors to Bangalore are increasing day by day; the main reason to this is the constant climate, the people and the IT trend that is growing in Bangalore. As I mentioned earlier the tweeples tweeted about Autoriksaws, Traffic, Climate, Kannada slang words –“ Kannada Gotilla”, “Right madi”, “Guru”,  “Macha”, etc. Most of them tweeted about Roads, Parking, Movies, etc. this was a perfect platform to tell about Bangalore and to know about Bangalore.

This inspired me to write on the life style in Bangalore, people in Bangalore, climate, shops, theaters, language, and many more… WOW!! Simply Astonishing.  And twitter became a platform to share your thoughts. I still see people never stopped tweeting around the hash-tag even after 5 days and will never stop atleast for few days. I felt this hash-tag made me more excited even after seeing many more hash-tags which is made to engage people just for the sake of engagement. It was the best hash-tag which was viral on twitter. Hash-tag was very simple cute and stirring .

There were few tweets that I have mentioned below which was very interesting.-

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@rameshsrivats,- “#YouAreABangaloreanIf You mentally rehearse your approach before talking to an auto driver.”

“#YouAreABangaloreanIf while giving directions, if it's nearby you say, "Straight hogu" and if it's far away, you say "Straaaaaaaaight hogu."

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@anu_km - “#YouAreABangaloreanIf the Auto driver first speaks to you in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English till you tell him.."Meter haaki saar"”.

@iKumbhakarna - #youareabangaloreanif your local ANNamma *RKishNa* (orchestra) ends with 'Kuladalli Keelyavudo Huchchappa' :-D :-D

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@vadakkus - #youAreABangaloreanIf You consider crossing Silk Board Junction in a single attempt as a major achievement in life.

@iBestest - #Youareabangaloreanif your city doesn't have an airport, but a village outside your city has.

There are many sample tweets about this hash-tag on @vadakkus’s blog . I am very proud about this. Proud to be a Bangalorean.