Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s second Union Budget seems to have become a big hit with netizens.
According to analytics from CRISIL, about 64 per cent of all social media activity on February 28 had positive undertones.
Raman Uberoi, Business Head-CRISIL Ratings, Large Corporates and President, Corporate Affairs, said: “Economy experts, investors, businesses and media were most positive. Close to 83 per cent of all economy experts expressed positive sentiments, followed by 77.6 per cent of all media, 76 per cent of all investors and 74.9 per cent of all businesses.” The study was based on an analysis of 37,037 unique social media profiles and 1,89,651 relevant comments or ‘mentions’ (out of a total 3.32 lakh made) on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc. The data was captured by Simplify360, a social media listening platform, as per a press statement.
Cyber users in the 13-20 year bracket spoke of jobs, income and insurance, while those between 21 and 30 were focused on corporates, black money, wealth tax and also growth, investment, infrastructure, and gold. People above 40 spoke about insurance and mediclaim premium, middle-class, pension, social security, said Uberoi.
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