Narendra Modi beats Tharoor in the battle for Twitter followers

A look at the most popular political leaders among the tweeple and their vital statistics

There are people and there are tweeple. While the verdict of the people comes every five years, tweeple declare their verdicts in real time. Though the tweeple's influence on or their reflection of people's mood is yet to be clearly established, the virtual group's importance is growing by the day with the ruling party anointing Shashi Tharoor as its “twitter-in-chief”.

As BJP’s Narendra Modi steers clear of competition in the social media with most number of followers, Business Standard brings you the most popular political leaders among tweeple and their vital twitter statistics:  

Name	Following	Followers
Narendra Modi (@narendramodi)

  373 1,834,703

Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor)

393 1,823,618

Manmohan Singh (@PMOIndia)

39 639,490

Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp)

 

0 525,433

Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal)

65 414,526

Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar)

 

87 306,491

Derek O'Brien (@quizderek)

108 161,024

Milind Deora (@milinddeora)

 

45 79,540

Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj)

105 42,374

Rajnath Singh (@BJPRajnathSingh)

1 27,915

Raman SIngh (@drramansingh)

 

22 15,127 Indians in other fields

Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan)

751 5,541,718

Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra)

236 4,172,156

Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt)

8 3,471,510

Anand Mahindra (@anandmahindra)

 

132 826,309

Ratan Tata (@RNTata2000)

26 687,199

Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya)

66 1,993,684

Barkha Dutt (@BDUTT)

231 954,881 International Leaders

Barack Obama (@BarackObama)

660,945 33,691,199

Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama)

9 4,642,898

David Cameron (@Number10gov)

371,505 2,365,527

Shinzo Abe (@AbeShinzo)

2 145,926

Vlamdimir Putin (@PutinRF_ENG)

1 18,301 Source: www.twitter.com