SOCIAL MEDIA

HOW POLITICIANS AND CELEBRITIES HAVE USED

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THEIR ADVANTAGE?
social media

 It is an online way of communication to develop

interaction and collaboration among people.
 It also spreads awareness among people by
creating different online pages and accounts for
sharing their agendas and information via these
mediums.
 websites and applications that enable users to
create and share content or to participate in social
networking.
How politicians and celebrities have used social media for
their advantage?

The biggest benefit for celebrities and politicians is that it allows them to
create their own platform and direct connection with their fans and
audience.

Celebrities:
 Celebrities now a days reaching out their fans through their
Facebook & Twitter accounts.
 Celebrities can't walk out easily in public places like a normal man
to feel the rhythm of what's happening around & they don't have
any idea about their image in public.
By having their social media channels celebrities can
benefit these things:

 Get to know more about their fans.

 Easy to reach out & be social.
 Ask to support a cause or a need.
 Reach large audiences.
POLITICIANS:
 The power of social media in the hands of politicians is immense
indeed, and can be used for good and evil.
 Social media enables news stories to quickly go viral and later can
lead to misinterpretations that can cause conflict.
 election processes.
 Reach large audiences.
 Most of the time, the political parties uses social media to defame
opposite party by spreading false or true rumor which helps them.
 Shaniera Akram

 The wife of former Pakistan cricket

captain Wasim Akram.
 She started the “Clean Karachi”
campaign.
 It's been two months since
Shaniera Akram voiced her
concern about the medical waste
landing on Sea view.
 Her post encouraged a lot of
people to come out and clean
the beaces.
SHOAIB AKHTAR
YouTube
 Shoaib Akhtar, an EX cricketer of
Pakistan is immensely popular on
social media.
 After his retirement, He joined
twitter and Facebook with huge
number of followers.
 His opinion has valuable impact on
people. He also the fastest person
to reach 1 million subscriber on
YouTube because of his fame on
cricket field and on twitter.
 Imran Khan
 Imran khan, popular ex-cricketer of Pakistan and currently
the prime minister of Pakistan. His political party PTI used
social media sites like Facebook and twitter for election
campaign and encouraged youth of Pakistan to support PTI.
His shukat khanam hospital also gained world wide
popularity by spreading his cause on social media.
 Khan and his social media crew consistently outperformed
Rival’s online presence throughout the entire Prime Minister
campaign, leading up to the election.
 Imran Khan along with his political party, PTI, have been
using Social Media more extensively than any other political
party, mostly Twitter and Facebook, and are followed by
millions of Insafians (PTI Supporters) and well-wishers.
 Barack Obama

 Barack Obama A two time

President of USA had been hailed
as the first social media president.
He has accounts in twitter,
LinkedIn, instagram, Facebook and
many more. His tweets gained
immense popularity and criticism
among his followers.