The Facebook likes these days are being calculated as votes to the party, they mean the charm of the party. If only the number of 'likes' in cyberspace could win elections instead of votes, almost every political party would boast of a clean sweep. The official page of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). A quick look at the page statistics reveals that while the number of netizens who gave the party a likes on a social networking website between March 28 and April 3 were only 21,049, the number shot up to a staggering 84,250 from March 29 to April 4 - meaning that the party made a gain of 63,201 followers within only seven days. Though the number would send the TDP's opponents tension about their strategies, it seems like even YSRCP has followed the same way. While the party had gathered a mere 5,574 'likes' between March 19 and March 25, the number shot up to 38,267 within 10 days. Analysts say that while parties in the state have gone into campaigns on social media, the number of 'virtual' people increase accordingly. "Unless there has been a development of gigantic proportions and the incident goes viral, it is next to impossible for over 60,000 people to like pages within a week. The matter is suspicious. It is likely that the 'likes' and 'followers' have been bought as a part of a political advertising plan," says a social media analyst. The number of likes should not be a 'metric' of popularity, he adds. Nabeel Adeni, a software engineer and analyst.  Therefore, the impact, if any, was likely to be seen in cities and towns. "Around 75 percent people still live in rural areas where there is little or no internet connectivity. So there will be little opinion building on account of the internet here. Also, what is to be seen is if people will go out and actually vote," says Pandmanabha Reddy from Forum for Good Governance.