India's mission to Mars sweeps social media platforms - The Economic Times

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NEW DELHI: India’s maiden feat of placing its low-cost Mars spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet in the first attempt today was a hot topic of discussion on social media platforms.

Social networking giant Facebook said the top post on both the ISRO and Mars Orbiter Mission Page reached over 1 million in the first 2 hours and received over 147,000 likes, comments and shares.

On the micro-blogging site Twitter, ISRO’s Mars Orbitter twitter handel (@MarsOrbiter) gained more than 55,000 followers within hours.

Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com

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