PM Narendra Modi Second Most Followed Politician Globally After Former US Barack Obama: SEMrush
Congress party President Rahul Gandhi has accumulated 12 million followers from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
New Delhi, May 7: 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. PM Narendra Modi Declared ‘The Most Popular World Leader’ on Social Media With Over 13.7 Million Likes on Official Facebook Page – Report.
The most-followed politician globally was former US President Barack Obama, who has 182,710,777 followers on his Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. With almost 110 million followers worldwide, Modi has overtaken US President Donald Trump who has 96 million followers globally. However, Trump is the second-most followed politician on Twitter.
"The popularity of our PM Narendra Modi is immense and the study finding depicting him as the 2nd most followed person globally after former US President Barack Obama is a culmination of this fact," Fernando Angulo, Head of International Partnership, SEMrush, said in a statement. From Narendra Modi to Rahul Gandhi, Here's A Look at The Most Active Indian Politicians on Social Media in Year 2018.
Congress party President Rahul Gandhi has accumulated 12 million followers from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Out of all the social media platforms, Twitter serves as the nest of the maximum number of active political audiences, both domestic and global, says the report by SEMrush.
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