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Celebrities as Influencers for Brands: Questioning the Believability Factor

Take a look at this Instagram post. A smiling Priyanka Chopra is photographed in her home kitchen preparing a drink with a can of Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer . It's made very clear it's a paid partnership thanks to the social media platform allowing influencers to disclose they're publishing sponsored content. With the actress's ginormous 54.2 million following, this particular post received 921k likes and 3.9k comments. That's a 1.69% engagement rate based on this commonly used formula >>  Engagement Rate = (Likes + Comments) / Followers x 100. Now, that's not surprising for a celebrity with a huge following. There are many articles indicating that people with a mega following greater than a million can see engagement rates between 0.7% - 1.7%.  But scroll through the comments (as far as your patience lets you browse through the thousands of comments), and you will notice that most of the comments (if not all) are random, with fans expressing the...

To Twitt-err is Human

(This post was written by me and published on my Facebook page when I created my Twitter handle back in May 2010 . I like a million others was curious as a cat to discover Twitterverse. With this poem, I quite like how what I had in my mind  translated into words . Enjoy reading and if you will, follow me on @HanishaLalwani.) *Tweet! Tweet!* Who is it?  A little blue bird, 'Twitter' is what you call it!   I'm spreading my wings and flying with it...  For those out of it, are sadly missing out on it!  Once I'm on it there's no fighting it,  He's on it, she's on it, even it's on it...  And if you're not yet on it,  Then you must be quite a twit!  Celebs tweet randomness on it,  Crazy fans are lovin’ every bit of it...  The media is spying all over it,  Tharoor and Modi fell in a soup ‘cause of it!  Corporates are spending millions on it,  Students and teachers are debating ...