Buhari ranked 14th most influential world leaders on social networks

– President Buhari’s social accounts ranked as 14 most influential in the world

– The social account of President Barack Obama of the United States (@POTUS) was ranked number one

President Muhammadu Buhari has been ranked the 14th most influential leader on the social networks in 2016.

The Burson-Marsteller’s 2016 Twiplomacy study ranked Buhari (@MBuhari) with a Twitter following of 562,000, 184,000 Facebook likes and 49,000 followings on Instagram ahead of 36 other world leaders.

The ranking refers to the use of Twitter and other social media networks by government agencies and officials to involve with the public, separate information and even leverage global influence.

It reviews how head of states and government, foreign ministers and world organisations use social media channels.

Notwithstanding ranking 14th in the world, the @NgrPresident account which is the official account of Buhari as Nigeria’s president was also ranked 38 in the world.

“Other social media accounts ranked include that of the President of the United State, (@POTUS) which was ranked Number 1 as well as King Salman (@KingSalam) of Saudi Arabia ranked number two.

“Pope Francis (@Pontifex) is ranked number three, Barack Obama (@barackobama) in his personal capacity was ranked number 7, while the Saudi Foreign Ministry (@ksamofa) was ranked number 50,” the report said.

Mr Buhari joined Twitter on December 22, 2014, after winning the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, within six hours of enlisting he had 12,000 followers the president-elect presently has more than 200, 000 followers.

His wife, Aisha Buhari, joined in March 2015, and also has more than 32, 000 followers.