ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS IN CONGRESSFormer Union minister Shashi Tharoor is one senior Congressman who has been active on Twitter for long. Social media savvy Modi and his followers used Twitter and other such media to the hilt to the Opposition headed by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Congress has often seen as a social media laggard. However, the party on Saturday crossed a million followers mark on Twitter. CONGRESS ORGANISES WORKSHOP TO BUILD ITS SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLSAiming to catch up with Modi and his social media team's skills, Congress had organised a workshop to train its spokespersons on handling digital media especially Facebook and Twitter in August 2013.

Source: India Today June 12, 2016 17:37 UTC