Modi has 25 mn fans on Facebook, 8 mn Twitter followers

November 20, 2014 00:52

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has added about seven million new followers on popular social networking site Facebook to become world's second most popular leader even as his Twitter following expanded to 8 million.

Modi, an active social media user, has added seven million Facebook followers in the just five months to have a fan base of over 25 million. He ranks next to only United States President Barack Obama, who has over 43.6 million followers on the world's largest social networking site. Similarly, Modi is the third most followed on microblogging site Twitter with over 8 million followers, behind Obama and the Pope. In July, Modi had over 18 million Facebook friends and 5.09 million Twitter followers.

Obama leads the popularity chart on Twitter with over 43 million followers, followed by the Pope Francis, who is followed by over 14 million people.

"Since his (Modi) election win in May earlier this year, the Prime Minister's Twitter account (@narendramodi) has doubled in followers adding more than 4 million followers," Twitter said in a statement.

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