More than 20 lakh Marathis now on social media app, ShareChat

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Pune : India’sfastest growing social media platform, ShareChathas now touched 20 lakh Marathi users across Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka. This announcement was made during a media round-table in the city where a fewShareChat users also spoke about their experience of using the platform.

ShareChat is a first-of-its-kind regional language social networking platform, focused completely on India, and available in 10 languages of Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Odia and Kannada.

Majority of ShareChat users among Marathisare male (75 per cent), however there is a strong representation of females as well (25 per cent). Trending news,politics, Marathi cinema, literature, culture, comedy videos and regional festivals and events are the main topics of interest to the users on the platform. “We have witnessed a strong inclination towards local festivals like Ganesh Chaturthi, PandharichiWari and movies – be it Marathi cinema or Bollywood among the local users on our platform,”ShareChatcommunity head for Marathi, SurajKawadesaid. Recent trending topics on ShareChatin Marathi are #Vhay_mee_labharthi, #Kopardi_khatla,#gram_panchayat_elections,#Elphinstone,#Dutt_Jayanti,#Ind vs SL,#Gujarat_Elections,#Dashkriya,headded.

ShareChat caters to the daily need of digital content and infotainment of first-time internet users in their own language. It provides a strong platform where people can express their opinions, share their talents, talk about trends and meet new people having similar interests.Maharashtra has the largest number of ShareChatusers in India (20 per cent) while Marathi as a language contributes our second largest user base behind Hindi,” said Prakhar Singhal, Head – Business, ShareChat.