World Leaders on Twitter - Top10 Rankings

Appendix A: World Leader Rankings Research Note: World Leader Rankings on Twitter August 2011 A:3 Note: Fragility Score [0="Highly Stable" to 25="Extreme Fragility"]: State Fragility Index measuring the country's Political, Economic, Social, and Security stability (“Stable” are scores 0-11 => Little to Moderate Fragility, “Fragile” are scores 12-25 => Serious to Extreme Fragility) Polity Score [-10 to -6 "Autocracy", -5 to +5 "Anocracy", +6 to +10 "Democracy"]: Measures degree of democracy on 21 point scale (-10 to +10) ranging from monarchy to fully institutionalized democracy 2011 ranking Name Country Polity Score Regime Type Fragility Tweeting Since Followers (Aug 2011) Handle Link Klout 2010 ranking 27 Presidency of France (Nicolas Sarkozy) France 9 DEM 0 10/13/2008 41,223 Elysee http://twitter.com/Elysee 61 25 28 Federal Government of Germany Germany 10 DEM 0 1/5/2011 34,175 RegSprecher http://twitter.com/RegSprecher 63 New 29 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel 10 DEM 8 10/30/2008 27,628 netanyahu http://twitter.com/netanyahu 55 23 30 Prime Minister John Key New Zealand 10 DEM 1 11/14/2008 25,689 johnkeypm https://twitter.com/johnkeypm 57 20 31 Outgoing Prime Minister Yves Leterme Belgium 8 DEM 2 1/21/2010 23,474 YLeterme http://twitter.com/Yleterme 50 22 32 President Paul Kagame Rwanda -4 ANO 20 5/4/2009 22,626 PaulKagame http://twitter.com/PaulKagame 57 33 33 Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Thailand 4 ANO 7 5/20/2011 19,928 PouYingluck http://twitter.com/PouYingluck 63 9 34 Presidency of Portugal Portugal 10 DEM 0 10/11/2008 19,124 presidencia http://twitter.com/presidencia 46 New 35 President Goodluck Jonathan Nigeria 4 DEM 20 7/6/2010 18,556 JGoodlucktweets http://twitter.com/JGoodlucktw eets 46 28 36 President Michel Martelly Haiti -77 DEM 14 1/20/2010 17,135 presidentmicky http://twitter.com/presidentmic ky 64 New 37 President Tarja Halonen Finland 10 DEM 0 4/30/2009 12,643 TarjaHalonen http://twitter.com/TarjaHalone n 51 New 38 Prime Minister George Papandreou Greece 10 DEM 1 1/12/2010 12,089 primeministergr http://twitter.com/primeminist ergr 59 30 39 Prime Minister Karim Massimov Kazakhstan -6 AUT 10 2/16/2011 10,556 KarimMassimov http://twitter.com/KarimMassi mov 58 New