Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the second most-followed politician in the world with a social media audience of 110,912,648 million on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, a study by online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform SEMrush said on Tuesday.
The most-followed politician globally was former US PresidentBarack Obama, who has 182,710,777 followers on his Facebook, Instagram, andTwitter accounts.
With almost 110 million followers worldwide, Modi hasovertaken US President Donald Trump who has 96 million followers globally.
However, Trump is the second-most followed politician onTwitter.
“The popularity of our PM Narendra Modi is immense andthe study finding depicting him as the 2nd most followed person globally afterformer US President Barack Obama is a culmination of this fact,” FernandoAngulo, Head of International Partnership, SEMrush, said in a statement.
Congress party President Rahul Gandhi has accumulated 12million followers from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Out of all the social media platforms, Twitter serves as thenest of the maximum number of active political audiences, both domestic andglobal, says the report by SEMrush.