The World Leaders with the Most Followers on Twitter.

Byline: Katharina Buchholz

Politics is no longer confined to parliaments. Social media services like Twitter play an increasingly important role for many world leaders. But some manage to attract significantly more followers than others.

Many heads of state as well as their governments use the social network to promote themselves and their policies. As our chart shows, U.S. President Trump has the most followers, split between his two accounts @realdonaldtrump and @POTUS. While the first is the president's private Twitter account, @POTUS is passed along from president to president.

Only Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (75.9 million followers) comes close to Trump's Twitter prowess. Similar to Trump, he uses two account to further up his...