Sheikh Mohammed Among Top 10 World Leaders on Twitter
- Social media has opened instant channels of communication, with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram providing the opportunity of ‘live’ interaction with the leaders
- Sheikh Mohammed is one of the most followed leaders around the world in 2017, and he is the only Arab leader in the Top 10 list
- Sheikh Mohammed featured on the Top 10 list along with US President Donald Trump, Pope Francis and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- The 5 most followed Arab leaders on Twitter are Sheikh Mohammed, Queen Rania, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed and Sheikh Hamdan
- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE, and the Ruler of Dubai
- Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, ranked 4th on the most popular social media sites in 2017
- Sheikh Mohammed joined Twitter in 2009, and has gained 8.4 million followers till date
- On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, with 40 million election-related tweets sent
- American singer Katy Perry is the most followed user on Twitter, with 104 million followers
