Twitter launches a global campaign for passionate cricket community

With a view to strengthening the ardent Indian cricket community, the microblogging website Twitter is set to launch a global campaign “#CricketTwitter” from September 16 with custom emojis that can be activated by tweeting with hashtags like #CricketTwitter.

The initiative has received widespread appreciation from cricket fans across India, also because the campaign supports Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Revealing the primary motive behind the new campaign, Priya Nixon, Sports Partnership Manager at Twitter India, said: “When fans turn to the service to participate in cricket action on Twitter, we are always looking for new ways to help fans participate in these conversations. #CricketTwitter enhances Twitter’s second-screen experience by highlighting the best cricket conversations and facilitating engagement and engagement. 69 per cent of all people in Twitter India classify themselves as a cricket fan and 30 per cent describe themselves as a huge fan,” the Hindu Business Line quoted Twitter as saying.

“All matches played across the upcoming cricket league season will have dedicated event pages where people can follow the latest updates from the games in one place,” Twitter said.

“Fans will be able to stay tuned into what their favourite teams, players and experts are tweeting, and also view premium video content from Twitter’s partners,” it said.

Twitter will also provide premium content from sports broadcasters, as it has “has partnered with several publishers and broadcasters to bring exclusive sports content to audiences on the service,” the report said.

Further, the launch of Twitter Spaces will enable the user to host/join ongoing live audio rooms. The users can also create or follow existing lists dedicated to cricket.