There are many politicians across the world on social media. As with all social users, some are more active than others, some are just well-liked, and some have brilliant strategies in place to reach their audience.
In a recent study, Semrush identified politicians with the largest amount of followers on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. We put together a list of the 10 most popular politicians on social media across each of these platforms.
You can see the politicians, the number of their followers, and our findings below:
Key findings from the study:
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Former American President, Barack Obama, is the front runner being the first politician to be close to reaching 200 million social media followers.
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Twitter brings the largest amount of followers to almost all of the politicians, while in comparison, YouTube generates the least amount of followers.
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American politics have the most representation on social platforms—three out of the top 10 politicians are American.
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Despite being second in terms of the total amount of followers, Narendra Modi has the biggest amount of Instagram followers amongst the top 10 politicians.
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The combined amount of followers for the first two politicians, Barack Obama and Narendra Modi, is bigger than the population of the USA.
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The сombined amount of all followers for the top 10 politicians is only 85 million people less than that of the total population of all European countries combined.