Published 17:08 IST, September 16th 2019

PM Modi's social media following hits a stunning milestone

PM Modi has crossed a stunning milestone ahead of his massively significant and high-profile visit to the USA, breaching the 50 million mark on Twitter

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has crossed a stunning milestone ahe of his massively significant and high-profile visit to US, breaching 50 million follower mark on Twitter. This makes him only Indian politician to attain such huge reach on social media platform. He takes third place after US President Donald Trump with 64 million followers and former US President Barack Obama, who remains at  top spot with 108 million followers. PMO's official Twitter handle has also crossed over 30 million followers.

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PM Modi’s FB has more likes than population of Cana

It is worth ting PM Modi remains equally popular on or major social media platforms as well. PM comes in second on Facebook popularity list with a little over 44 million likes, a figure which is more than population of Cana but falls short of Obama’s 54 million. PM comes out on top when it comes to Instagram with over 28 million followers, former US President Obama comes in at second with over 24 million followers with current US President Donald Trump lagging far behind at just over 13 million followers.

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PM Modi’s social media popularity

His YouTube channel has 3.4 million subscribers while his profile on LinkedIn has 3 million followers, his followers on two respective social media platforms when ded up is greater than population of Singapore. If we are to furr d up total number of followers on PM Modi’s social media accounts on each of se platforms, y reach to a little over 125 million social media followers which is very close to twice population of United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and rrn Ireland).

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Texas rey for ‘Howdy, Modi’

Texas is getting rey to welcome PM Narendra Modi for 'Howdy Modi' event scheduled to take place on September 22 in Houston's NRG Stium. Texas India Forum (TIF), a Houston-based n-profit body, has organised event. event has been fully booked up and over 50,000 people will be attending it. PM Modi will give an dress to Indian-American community who belong to all walks of life, and celebrate ir tremendous success and deepening US-India ecomic and political ties.

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16:17 IST, September 16th 2019