Prime Minister Narendra Modi achieved yet another milestone by becoming the most followed world leader on the social media platform X with over 100 million followers.
PM Modi stood out in terms of social media followers when compared with the social media followings of many Indian politicians. While Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi has 26.4 million followers, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has 27.5 million.
Besides, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav has 19.9 million, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has 7.4 million. RJD’s Lalu Prasad Yadav has 6.3 million, Tejashwi Yadav has 5.2 million followers and NCP Chief Sharad Pawar has 2.9 million followers on social media.
PM Modi has been far ahead of other world leaders like US President Joe Biden, who presently has 38.1 million followers, HH Sheikh Mohammed, the present ruler of Dubai (11.2 million) and Pope Francis (18.5 million). Seeing PM Modi’s popularity on X, world leaders are eager to engage with PM Modi on social media because connecting with him boosts their own follower base, engagements, views and reposts. We have seen this recently in Italy as well as Austria.
PM Modi even has more followers when compared to some active global athletes such as Virat Kohli (64.1 million), Brazilian footballer Neymar Jr (63.6 million) and American basketball player LeBron James (52.9 million) followers.
He is ahead of even celebrities like Taylor Swift (95.3 million), Lady Gaga (83.1 million), and Kim Kardashian (75.2 million). Interestingly, in the last three years, PM Modi’s X handle has seen an impressive growth of approximately 30 million users.
His influence extends to YouTube and Instagram as well, where he has nearly 25 million subscribers and over 91 million followers respectively.
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