Narendra Modi's Twitter account gets an addition of another million followers, taking the total follower count to 16.1 million.
Number of followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, @narendramodi, on social media site Twitter has crossed 16 million mark, by adding record number of followers in last one year.
"In a span of two months, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account gets an addition of another million followers, taking the total follower count to 16.1 million," Twitter said in a statement.
Modi's follower number crossed 15 million on September 22, 2015. Since the time he was sworn into office on May 26, 2014, he has added 11.9 million followers.
"PM Modi has also set new records as the largest increase in the number of followers in a 12-month period for an Indian account (8.8 million followers from Sep 17, 2014 to Sep 17, 2015)," Twitter said.
TWITTER RACE
- US President Barack Obama (@barackobama) tops the list with 66.1 million followers
- Modi is the most followed Indian politician, and the 2nd most followed politician in the world after Barack Obama
- Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) runs with 17.8 million followers and Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) at 16.2 million followers
Modi has used twitter for campaigns like #MakeInIndia, #SwachBharat, #MannKiBaat and #SefieWithDaughter to reach and connect with the citizens for development and progress.
"Recently, PM Modi's umbrella initiative #MakeInIndia, one of the largest economic development initiatives planned by the government, became the first non-US brand to launch its own Twitter emoji to a worldwide audience," the statement added.
The #MakeInIndia emoji symbolises the success of the brand campaign on Twitter with nearly 500 million impressions this year to promote India as a great place for foreign direct investment to transform the country into a global manufacturing hub.
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