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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Francis tweets, the world listens.
According to “Twiplomacy,” a study of the Twitter accounts of world leaders and their retweet rates, U.S. President Barack Obama has the most Twitter followers, but Pope Francis’ @Pontifex is the most influential Twitter account — his average “retweet” and “favorite” rate is more than eight times higher than Obama’s.
Despite his account’s “massive following,” the study said, “@BarackObama tweets are on average ‘only’ retweeted 1,210 times. By this standard, Pope Francis — @Pontifex — is by far the most influential ‘tweep’ with 9,929 retweets for every tweet he sends on his Spanish account and 7,527 retweets on average on his English account.”
Pope Francis also was determined “most influential” by the study in 2014 and 2013.
And in the category of all-time popular tweets, Pope Francis makes the top three.
Obama’s Nov. 7, 2012, victory tweet, “Four more years,” tops the list with close to 750,000 retweets. In second place is the tweet in Arabic sent out by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in January when he ascended to the throne; 261,000 followers retweeted his text.
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According to “Twiplomacy,” a study of the Twitter accounts of world leaders and their retweet rates, U.S. President Barack Obama has the most Twitter followers, but Pope Francis’ @Pontifex is the most influential Twitter account — his average “retweet” and “favorite” rate is more than eight times higher than Obama’s.
Despite his account’s “massive following,” the study said, “@BarackObama tweets are on average ‘only’ retweeted 1,210 times. By this standard, Pope Francis — @Pontifex — is by far the most influential ‘tweep’ with 9,929 retweets for every tweet he sends on his Spanish account and 7,527 retweets on average on his English account.”
Pope Francis also was determined “most influential” by the study in 2014 and 2013.
And in the category of all-time popular tweets, Pope Francis makes the top three.
Obama’s Nov. 7, 2012, victory tweet, “Four more years,” tops the list with close to 750,000 retweets. In second place is the tweet in Arabic sent out by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in January when he ascended to the throne; 261,000 followers retweeted his text.
cnstopstories.com/2015/04/28/high-level-tweeting-study-confirms-popes-twitter-influence/