The current research paper investigates the tweetology of twitter’s posts of two prominent politicians bearing the opposition parties in India to examine how ideologically conflicting ideas are interpreted and represented on microblogging sites. Key-concern of this study was to examine the ideological patterns of politicians that motivate them to pick out the subjects of constructing the discursive argument and calculate the spirit of democratic participation of people in the discourse that takes shape micro-blogging site Twitter. The study has employed the Three-Dimensional model of CDA developed by (Fairclough, 1995); to analyze the Discourses. The Purposive-Non Probability Sampling technique has been used to select the Social Networking Site (SNS) twitter to study the online discourse between politicians and the public. The major findings of Tweets analysis show that Subramanian Swamy shared his personal opinions on Twitter in his own quotations with attaching an online news article link in his 2nd Tweet; the contexts of Swamys all Tweets are Social and Political: Hinduism, Triple Talaq, student unions clashes ABVP & AISA, Ayodhya land-dispute, ISIS and India. Future studies can analyze Political Discourse on Twitter using the tool of Intertextuality to examine the recontextualization of the Subject matter in discourse.

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Siwach, K. M., & Singh, M. K. (2018). Tweetology: Ideological discourse analysis of the tweets of the key twitter users politicians of india with special reference to shashi tharoor and subramanian swamy. International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 4(2), 65-75. doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.20469/ijhss.4.10002-2