October 2nd is celebrated annually as Gandhi Jayanti in India. On 2 October, the hashtag #MahatmaGandhi trended on Twitter and most Twitter users tweeted on Nathuram Godse as Gandhi's 151st birth anniversary dawned on Friday. Nathuram Godse emerged as the top trend on social media websites within hours. On Twitter, the hashtag '#NathuramGodseZindabad (Long Live Nathuram Godse)' has trended and there are more than 1 lakh tweets on the hashtag. The algorithm is based on multiple variables for Twitter Patterns and is "customised" for users based on who they follow, their interests, and location. But on the Twitter mobile app and the web client, there is also a trend section that is available to users, which displays patterns that are not tailored for the user.

Here are some of the tweets from the Twitter:

“A True nationalist….A true real leader….A Real Deshbakth… Nathuram Godse🙏🙏#NathuramGodse” pic.twitter.com/4LP8LOoE0f

— Anusha Binny (@anushabinny) October 2, 2020

“Nathuram Godse Was A TERRORIST, his supporters are terror apologists.”

— Gaurav Pandhi (@GauravPandhi) October 2, 2020

“Was disturbed to see 'Godse Zindabad' trending on Twitter on the Birth anniversary of #MahatmaGandhi & when I went to check I found that its none other than the Bots Account created to ask Justice for Sushant Singh Rajput.

Aaj Ke Din Apna DP Toh Change Kar Dete!” pic.twitter.com/syhAnYXPrY

— Rais Shaikh (@rais_shk) October 2, 2020

“Gandhi said: Be the change you want to see in the world. Quickly people started trending Nathuram Godse.”

— Jyoti Yadav (@jyotiyadaav) October 2, 2020

“Folks who are trending #नाथूराम_गोडसे_जिंदाबाद;

Godse killed an unarmed old man at point blank range, tried to escape, and was tackled & pinned down by the Garderner of Birla house.

Calling Godse brave is Naive. He was a coward, who did the cowardly act because of his Bigotry.”

— Advaid അദ്വൈത് (@Advaidism) October 2, 2020

“While the world celebrates Gandhi's birth anniversary, his murderer Nathuram Godse is being celebrated in his own country by ruling party supporters! Gandhi trends at #2, Godse at #1” https://t.co/lxrp21DaxD

— Shehla Rashid (@Shehla_Rashid) October 2, 2020

“I wake up on #GandhiJayanti to find Nathuram Godse Zindabad trending on top. A face of New India.”

— Saba Naqvi (@_sabanaqvi) October 2, 2020

RT for Mahatma Gandhi

“Like for Nathu Ram Godse#MahatmaGandhi #नाथूराम_गोडसे_जिंदाबाद” pic.twitter.com/V4ZhlnF5I7

— Arnab Goswami (@kattar__hinduu) October 2, 2020

Nathuram Godse Was A TERRORIST, his supporters are terror apologists.

— Gaurav Pandhi (@GauravPandhi) October 2, 2020

Twitterati has many times highlighted the name of Godse and criticised the legacy of Gandhi. '#GodseAmarRahe (May Godse be immortal)' went viral on Twitter in 2019. By 8 pm on 2 October 2019, the hashtag had been invoked by about 20,000 tweets. Godse shot Gandhi in the chest three times outside his room in Birla House in New Delhi on the evening of January 30, 1948. Godse gave a detailed explanation for his act of murdering Gandhi during his high-profile trail at the Red Fort in Delhi.

In one of Godse discourses, he said, “Gandhi was, paradoxical as it may appear a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and nonviolence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen for ever for the freedom they brought to them. The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last, goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately.”