Donald Trump is now the world’s most followed leader on Twitter, while Narendra Modi is the third, according to the latest report by Twiplomacy, a Burson Marsteller research project that tracks the use of Twitter by governments and international organisations.
Trump overtook Pope Francis by a few thousand followers to occupy the first place in Twiplomacy’s October report. The US president’s personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump has 39, 735, 749 followers, while the Pope’s official account, @Pontifex, trails behind by more than 2 lakh followers at number two.
The Pope’s numbers show a total of his nine different accounts, that dispense prayers and reflections in nine different languages such as English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Latin, French, German and Arabic.
