PU achieve one more national recognition in Social Media as its official Facebook page
Author(s): SK VyasPU Chandigarh's official Facebook page. Chandigarh, December 31, 2014: Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh has achieved one more national recognition in the field of social media as its official Facebook page (https://www.faceb
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Dec 31, 2014 12:30
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PU Chandigarh's official Facebook page.
Chandigarh, December 31, 2014: Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh has achieved one more national recognition in the field of social media as its official Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/official.pu.india) has been given top rank amongst all the public Universities of the country. PU Facebook page got fifth rank in the country among all educational institutions.
The ranking has been given by India’s leading carrier counselling web-portal ‘Career360’. Incidentally, PU had become the first Indian Public University, whose Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/official.pu.india was verified by the Facebook.
Congratulating the students and 76.5 thousand followers of the page, PU Director, Public Relations, Vineet Punia said that the credit for the success in just one year of operation goes to them. Various global and national rankings have also helped the University in getting due attention on the social media, he added.
It may be recalled that PU Facebook page was launched on October 21, 2013 and now it is followed by more than 76 thousand people from 45 countries. 67 percent of these followers are in the age group of 18 to 24 years and 22 percent are in the age group of 25 to 34 years. 34 percent of total PU fans are females.
Punia informed that the Facebook page has emerged as important tool for reaching out to the students, alumni and its well wishers settled in the country and various parts of the globe. He informed that the Facebook page posts reached out to more than 4.5 lakh people in last one month. The page received hits from cities like Chandigarh, New Delhi, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Bangluru, Gurgaon, Melbourne (Australia), Toronto (Canada), Auckland (New Zealand), Sydney(Australia), Brampton (Canada) and Dubai (UAE). The hits data provided by Facebook indicate that PU page is also popular in Canada, Australia, USA, UK, New Zealand, UAE, Pakistan, Italy and Nepal, he further informed.
(SK Vyas/Jalandhar)
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