World's Most Followed Politician On Social Media, Modi Ranks Second

4. Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney is an American politician and businessman who was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. Prior to his presidential bid, he served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007.

The year 2012 saw the rapid emergence of followers for Romney with around 60, 000 followers per day on Twitter. Today he has 11.3 million likes on his Facebook account.

5. Prabowo Subianto

Indonesia's social media-loving youth has taken to Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms to record their thoughts after voting in the presidential poll.

Prabowo's centralized; top-down social media campaign markets the candidate as a strong, decisive leader.

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