Followers of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on various social media platforms now exceed 15 million.
Sheikh Mohammed’s followers on Twitter have reached 7.2 million, while he has 3.3 million followers on Facebook, 2.1 million on Instagram and 950,000 on Google Plus. His followers on LinkedIn doubled in 2016, reaching 1 million. Sheikh Mohammed is deemed as one of the five most influential global political leaders in terms of the number of followers on the platform, which has about 400 million users in total.