PM Narendra Modi is the fourth most followed leader in the world on Twitter

Mumbai: According to a study by Twiplomacy 2014, since his election in late May 2014, India’s new Prime Minister @NarendraModi has skyrocketed into fourth place, surpassing the @WhiteHouse on 25 June 2014 and dropping Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül (@cbabdullahgul) and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an (@RT_Erdogan) into sixth and seventh place with more than 4 million followers each.

#India’s PM @NarendraModi has become the 4th most followed world leader today http://t.co/7EpG1R9qgS #Twiplomacy pic.twitter.com/Sg1ADwcKyo

— Twiplomacy (@Twiplomacy) June 25, 2014

Modi still has a ways to go to best U.S. President @BarackObama, who tops the world-leader list with a colossal 43.7 million followers, with Pope Francis @Pontifex) with 14 million followers on his nine different language accounts and Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono @SBYudhoyono, who has more than five million followers and surpassed President Obama’s official administration account @WhiteHouse on 13 February 2014.

The study also revealed that more than 83 per cent of all United Nations (UN) governments have a presence on Twitter, and two-thirds (68 per cent) of all heads of state and government have personal Twitter accounts. Eight world leaders have seen some of their tweets retweeted more than 24,000 times, reflecting major announcements and historic events, it said. These include tweets like "India has won! The conquest of India. Good days are ahead", Malaysian Prime Minister's tweet about Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the abdication tweet of the King of Spain and even more trivial Sochi Olympics bet between Canada's Stephen Harper and Barack Obama.