Overview
G5iO looked at the tweeting patterns of the most active heads of state on Twitter. These include @narendramodi, @JoeBiden, @RTErdogan, @ImranKhanPTI, @HHShkMohd, @KingSalman, @EmmanuelMacron, @BorisJohnson, @JustinTrudeau, @KremlinRussia, @BorisJohnson and @netanyahu.
Methodology
- Twitter data was scraped from Twitter rest API of last 3200 tweets of each Leader.
- We crunched over 33 thousand tweets and analyzed them.
Insight 1
The weekly frequency of tweets by world leaders has increased by thousand folds in the last few years. Twitter has become a tool for public diplomacy for world leaders. Western leaders are comparatively more active than Eastern leaders on Twitter.
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Insight 2
Eastern leaders mostly tweeted about issues such as Kashmir, money laundering and domestic politics. Key issues that concerned Western Leaders included Brexit, the Afghan war and health care.
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The most frequent words used by these leaders are as follows:
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Insight 3
Western leaders retweet more posts on Twitter than Eastern leaders.
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Insight 4
Eastern leaders have more followers on Twitter than western leaders owing to the large following of Modi and Imran Khan.
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