Social media stars: Kerala

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Two people whose reach goes beyond Kerala and its politics - Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and BJP's surprise candidate for the Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency former cricketer S Sreesanth - lead the Twitter charts in the state. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and BJP state president K Rajasekaran are also active, often tweeting in Malayalam.

Due to long-standing alliances in the state, the United Democratic Front (UDF) led by the Congress has a handle of its own, in addition to independent handles of the parties. Neither the Left Front nor its leaders seem to have figured out Twitter.

In the last of a four-part series on social media stars in the poll-bound states of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Kerala, N Sundaresha Subramanian looks at the Twitter scene in God's Own Country