the account @barackobama has the largest twitter following in the world.
the account @barackobama has the largest twitter following in the world.
which account has the largest twitter following in the world?
@barackobama
barack obama's twitter account (@barackobama) is the official account on social networking site twitter for former president of the united states barack obama, and has been used for his election efforts. obama also used the white house's twitter account (@whitehouse) for his presidential activities. , obama's account had 104,251,685 followers, followed 616,446 accounts, and had posted 15,573 tweets. well into 2011, it was following the most people of any account on the network and was the third to achieve ten million followers. it is one of only two accounts in the world to be in the top ten in both followers and followees (twitter friends). , the white house account is also among the two-hundred most followed with nearly three million followers. on may 18, 2015, obama sent his first tweet from the first twitter account dedicated exclusively to the u.s. president (@potus); his first reply to a tweet directed at him was a tongue-in-cheek exchange with former president bill clinton (@billclinton).
barack obama on social media
president chávez, similar to other authoritarian regimes, was initially opposed to twitter calling it a site "for spoiled brats to criticize him". according to morozov, when the censorship of the internet becomes "impractical, politically indefensible, or prohibitively expensive, governments begin to experiment with propaganda". as the use of twitter by his opposition increased and since chávez could not easily censor twitter, he chose to become a user in order to place his own ideology on the social media website. in april 2010, president chávez created a twitter account and had 500,000 followers within a month, adding it as "part of the presidential choreography". chávez's popularity on twitter was not only attributed to his charisma, but to also his use of his government's resources, with chávez announcing in a televised address that he would use hundreds of publicly funded staffers to "help him win the twitter war". hundreds of state workers then helped chávez manage his twitter account. twitter eventually grew to be the most popular social media site in venezuela, with venezuelans being some of the largest twitter users in the world.
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