Pope, Obama World's Most Influential Leaders On Twitter; Manmohan Singh Nowhere in Scene


The White House twitter account, @WhiteHouse has 4.02 million followers, and is placed third. In fourth place is Turkish President Abdullah Gül with twitter handle @cbabdullahgul, which has 3.429 million followers and he’s closely followed by the country’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with twitter handle @RT_Erdogan, who is in fifth place with 3.409 million followers.

Queen Rania of Jordan (@QueenRania), Indonesia’s president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (@SBYudhoyono), Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussia and @MedvedevRussiae), the UK government (@Number10gov), and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina), respectively have more than 2 million followers, and so gets into the list of top 10 most influential leaders on Twitter.

As of 1 July, all 505 accounts of world leaders together had 105.7 million followers. And if you are wondering why Dalai Lama with 7.35 million followers is not on the list, it is because as Matthias Lüfkens of Twiplomacy clarified that "world leader" was defined as heads of states and government accounts of UN member states, so it doesn’t have Tibet in the list.

When it comes to Indian Prime Minister, the report says, “Manmohan Singh has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to connect with his G20 peers in Brasília, Canberra, Moscow, London, Ottawa, Tokyo and Washington on Twitter.”

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