World Leaders on Twitter
When the National Security Council tweeted out on Narenda Modi’s meeting with President Obama, I realized that Modi has 9.7 million twitter followers (which makes sense, given India’s population), which got me interested in whether there was another world leader who had more than Modi.
Here’s what I’ve learned so far (I’m including the Dalai Lama and Pope for comparison purposes).
Barack Obama: 53.7M
Pope Francis (17.6M combined, with lots of obvious overlap): Spanish 7.8M, English 5.4M, Portuguese 1.3M, Italian 2.9M, Arabic 180k, Latin 319K, German 242K
Dalai Lama: 10.2M
Narendra Modi: 9.7M
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: 5.6M
Enrique Pena Nieto: 3.54M
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia): 3.52M
Cristina Kirchner: 3.5M
Dilma Roussef: 3.2M
Joko Widodo (President of Indonesia): 2.66M
Najib Razak (PM of Malaysia): 2.33M
Nicolas Maduro: 2.23M
Rafael Correa (President of Ecuador): 1.97M
Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud: 1.6M
David Cameron: 900K
Francois Hollande 858K
Paul Kagame (Rwanda): 787K
Uhuru Kenyatta: 715K
Stephen Harper: 650K English, 17.9K French
Bibi Netanyahu: 355K Hebrew, 190K English
Shinzo Abe: 446K
Tony Abbott (Australia): 430K
Hassan Rouhani: 119K Persian, 293K English
Park Geun-Hye (South Korea): 372K
Jacob Zuma: 348K
John Key (New Zealand): 149K
Luis Guillermo Solis (Costa Rica): 133K
Lee Hsien Loong (Singapore): 128K
Michelle Bachelet (Chile): 59K
Evo Morales: 56K
Goodluck Jonathan (Nigeria): 25K
Abdel Fattah Elsisi: 1.8K (no tweets)
Enda Kenny (Irish Taoiseach): 26K
No twitter account: Angela Merkel
Lindsay Lohan has 8.73 million followers. (need I say anything?)
Right. Only Obama is anywhere close to the big stars like Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.
WHY will you not admit Bieber’s status???
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Is it because that is too close to home with Tom Brady?
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(Waiting for our new Jodi, Wallace, to come take a shot)
quote”?”Waiting for our new Jodi, Wallace, to come take a shot”unquote
SatNightLive = 1.1mil @time #deflategate#TomBrady#laughingstock
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/4549271
The NFL will announce their results, just prior to Pedro Martinez’s induction to the Hall of Fame
Also gonna note that you have more followers than the current Irish Taoiseach.
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Let a campaign be born!
Shit, I thought you would have a post on the Pats situation.
People need to vent?
Vent? You mean like, let the air out? Nah, I got a guy does that for me.
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It would be a very short post if I wrote it:
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Belichick always has been, and always will be, a cheater.
You have to admit his Saturday afternoon presser was brilliant
Total Masterpiece Theater.
Yeah, I personally think Bill is arrogant but he did graduate from Wesleyan and
was quite convincing in explaining the science of Pigskin Pete
Oh good gawd, a man against both Patriots and Cheese!
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This country is not tis of Thee Urban Gator dude!
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Hey! I was on team Cheese most of the year!
Only because it is a better ingredient, which makes for better football!
You think Harbaugh planted the seed?
He was rip shit about the “eligible receivers” but have no idea what kind of person he is?
There is no way to know about Harbaugh. Frankly, he seems a bit sketchy. But BillBel and Brady, those are princes of men. I trust and believe them!
No Putin? he has he resisted?
(Rather:) How has he resisted?