Published 18:23 IST, January 2nd 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi follows Ranvir Shorey on Twitter, actor reacts
Amid Ranvir Shorey writing on political matters with increased regularity, PM Modi followed him on Twitter. The actor reacted with delight, tweeting back
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not just one of the most followed Indian personalities on Twitter, but he is also among the most followed in the world. With his active presence on the microblogging platform, the statistics are a testament to the massive popularity of the leader across the world, and it is a common sight to see a netizen celebrating in some way when followed by the PM's handle.
That was the story with Ranvir Shorey as PM Modi followed him on Twitter. The Khosla Ka Ghosla star expressed his gratitude and said he was honoured to have the PM among his followers. Taking to the social media website, the actor wrote on Thursday, “@narendramodi Thank you for the follow back, Sir. Am honoured.”
Here’s the post
Ranvir joins a list of 2381 accounts that the Prime Minister follows.
As far as the number of his followers are concerned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is followed by 52.3 million accounts. The Prime Minister is the third-most followed leader on Twitter behind former and current USA President, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. While the former has 111.2 million followers, the latter has 68.1 million followers.
PM Modi is extremely active on Twitter with 25.6k tweets.
PM Modi had interacted with Ranvir Shorey once on Twitter. After Ranvir had urged the people of the country to go out in big numbers to vote, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, while also a taking a dig at Congress’ NYAY scheme, PM Modi had praised the actor.
He had then responded, “I like the passion with which you urge people to vote. Such energy strengthens our democratic traditions. Whatever our politics or ideologies are, our primary duty is to go out and vote!”
Updated 18:23 IST, January 2nd 2020