PM Modi second most followed politician globally on social media: Report

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the second most followed politician in the world on social media after former US President Barack Obama, according to a report.

Modi has a total audience of 110.9 million on Facebook,Twitter and Instagram.  Obama’s totalfollowing stood at 182.7 million, the report released by digital marketingplatform SEMrush said on Tuesday.

   

“With his approximately 110 million followersworldwide, Narendra Modi has overtaken the present US President Donald Trumpwho has 96 million followers globally. However, Trump still enjoys the secondmost followed politician position globally on Twitter (with 59.8 millionfollowers),” it said.

According to the report, Modi had over 43 million followerson Facebook, about 47 million followers on Twitter and more than 20 millionfollowers on Instagram.

However, these numbers do not represent unique users, whichmeans that the same person or entity could be following the same politicianacross various social media platforms.Congress party President Rahul Gandhi hasaccumulated 12 million followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, thereport said.  The report said of all thesocial media platforms, Twitter served as “the nest of the maximum numberof active political audiences, both domestic and global”.

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