April 10, 2026 06:42 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Israel says Hezbollah chief’s nephew-cum-secretary killed in Beirut strikes last night | Modi slams TMC on trade, fisheries at Haldia; vows 7th pay commission for govt employees | ‘US military will remain in and around Iran’: Trump amid fragile ceasefire | BJP eyes Assam hattrick, Puducherry comeback; LDF faces Kerala test | Israel claims Hezbollah chief's nephew killed in Beirut strikes last night | Jaishankar’s high-stakes diplomatic tour: EAM to visit UAE this week, first visit amid Middle East conflict | Passport row: Barricades outside Pawan Khera’s Hyderabad house after Himanta Biswa Sarma's warning | ‘Allow excluded voters to vote’: Mamata slams voter list freeze amid SIR row, to move Supreme Court | US, Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire deal, reopening Strait of Hormuz | ‘Prudent to wait and watch’: RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 5.25% amid global volatility

PM Modi followed by 20 ml netizens on Twitter

| | May 15, 2016, at 11:57 pm
New Delhi, May 15 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have seen his share of ups and downs in his two-year stint as the PM of the India so far, but his graph in the social scene is heading north.

With a whooping 20 million followers on Twitter, Modi has set a record as the most followed politician in the world, surpassing the likes of US President Barrack Obama and Japanese Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe.

Earlier this year, Time magazine had named the Indian PM in their list of the 30 most followed people on the social sphere.

Modi was the only lawmaker who had managed a entry there.

He is also the second most followed Indian on the micro blogging site, after screen legend Amitabh Bachchan.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.