Trump’s personal Twitter account was suspended indefinitely in connection with his comments made in person and on the social network leading up to the insurection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. on Jan 6. Trump has said that he is in the process of launching his own social network.
New U.S. President Joe Biden decided to archive Trump’s @POTUS account and start with a blank slate. This decision has set the current U.S. president back in the world leaders ranking. Biden comes third behind the Pope, counting 39 million followers. Three quarters come from his personal account, @JoeBiden.
Many heads of state use several Twitter accounts to promote themselves and their policies. Pope Francis actually has 52 million followers between nine different language accounts, the biggest being English (18.9m), Spanish (18.6m), Portuguese (5m) and Italian (5m).
The remainder of the top 8 ranking consists of Muslim leaders, the most-followed being Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
There are also heads of state, however, to whom the use of Twitter seems less important. German chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the tweeting to government spokesperson Steffen Seibert (@RegSprecher), who has a comparably meager 1 million followers.
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This chart shows the world leaders with the most followers on Twitter.
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