BJP crosses 11 million followers on Twitter
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP has 11 million Twitter followers. Amit Malviya, head of the party's IT cell, shared the news on its social media platform this morning.
The BJP has an enormous lead over their arch nemesis, the Congress, who only manage around 5.14 million followers, a meagre return compared to BJP’s 11 million.
With 47.2 million followers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the third most followed politician on Twitter behind only to Former US President Barack Obama and current US President Donald Trump.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has 9.4 million followers on his various social media platform.
PM Modi's popularity is not just limited to Twitter. An online visibility management study and content marketing firm ‘SaaS’ and 'SEMrush' revealed that PM Modi has a social media audience of 110,912,648 million on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Only Mr Obama -- with 182,710,777 followers on his Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts -- is ahead of him.