Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s official Twitter handle has crossed 25 million followers, setting new records of popularity on the social media platform. It is worth mentioning that the popularity of CM Yogi has crossed the boundaries. Many politicians and celebrities are yet to reach this milestone in terms of followers on social media.
The special thing is that CM Yogi is also the first Chief Minister to cross this number on Twitter. Yogi has achieved this figure in a span of eight years. He started his official handle on Twitter in September 2015. After taking over as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, his popularity has seen a qualitative increase in the way he has shown wide-ranging reforms in law and order along with development and good governance in the state.
With 25 million followers on Twitter, Yogi has become part of a club that also includes veteran leaders like Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The Chief Minister is active on all platforms of social media. He also has a huge number of followers on Koo app. He is counted as the most active chief minister and politician on social media.
Who is the most followed Indian politician on Twitter?
With 89.2M followers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most followed Indian politician on Twitter. He is followed by the great cricketer Viral Kohli. Apart from this, PM Modi is also the second most followed politician in the world after former US President Barack Obama.
It seems that no one can defeat him in the years to come due to his immense popularity in India and across the globe. The world’s richest man Elon Musk has recently started following Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter.
Musk has left behind Barack Obama for the title of ‘The Most Followed Twitter Account, 2023’. Currently with over 133 million followers, the business magnate is said to be gaining an average of 100,000 followers a day.