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Is change the only constant? Profile change perspective on #LokSabhaElections2019
Users on Twitter are identified with the help of their profile attributes
that consists of username, display name, profile image, to name a few. The
profile attributes that users adopt can reflect their interests, belief, or
thematic inclinations. Literature has proposed the implications and
significance of profile attribute change for a random population of users.
However, the use of profile attribute for endorsements and to start a movement
have been under-explored. In this work, we consider #LokSabhaElections2019 as a
movement and perform a large-scale study of the profile of users who actively
made changes to profile attributes centered around #LokSabhaElections2019. We
collect the profile metadata for 49.4M users for a period of 2 months from
April 5, 2019 to June 5, 2019 amid #LokSabhaElections2019. We investigate how
the profile changes vary for the influential leaders and their followers over
the social movement. We further differentiate the organic and inorganic ways to
show the political inclination from the prism of profile changes. We report how
the addition of election campaign related keywords lead to spread of behavior
contagion and further investigate it with respect to "Chowkidar Movement" in
detail.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figures, 4 table