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Appendix A: World Leader Rankings Research Note: World Leader Rankings on Twitter August 2011 A:4 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 40 Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen Denmark 10 DEM 0 3/24/2009 9,144 larsloekke https://twitter.com/larsloekke 40 24 41 Taoiseach Enda Kenny Ireland 10 DEM 0 4/21/2010 8,751 EndaKennyTD http://twitter.com/EndaKennyT D 44 New 42 Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis Latvia 8 DEM 0 6/24/2009 7,579 VDombrovskis http://twitter.com/vdombrovski s 52 26 43 Prime Minister Barham Salih Kurdistan Region of Iraq n/a n/a n/a 4/22/2009 7,380 barhamsalih http://twitter.com/barhamsalih 44 New 44 President Ilham Aliyev Azerbaijan -7 AUT 14 7/27/2010 6,046 azpresident http://twitter.com/azpresident 46 New 45 President Roza Otunbayeva Kyrgyzstan 7 n/a 11 3/19/2010 4,750 Otunbayeva http://twitter.com/otunbayeva 48 New 46 Presidency of Dominican Republic Dominican Republic 8 DEM 6 4/13/2010 4,479 PresidenciaRD http://twitter.com/PresidenciaR D 59 New 47 Prime Minister Raila Odinga Kenya 8 DEM 14 5/18/2011 3,839 odinga_raila http://twitter.com/odinga_raila 60 New 48 Prime Minister Batbold Sukhbaatar Mongolia 10 DEM 8 12/3/2010 3,549 BatboldPM http://twitter.com/BatboldPM 42 New 49 Prime Minister Donald Tusk Poland 10 DEM 0 7/17/2009 3,288 PremierRP http://twitter.com/PremierRP 45 29 50 Government of the Czech Republic Czech Republic 8 DEM 1 7/8/2010 2,799 strakovka http://twitter.com/strakovka 38 New 51 President Ivo Josipović Croatia 9 DEM 3 7/13/2009 2,786 ivojosipovic http://twitter.com/ivojosipovic 26 32 52 Government of Guatemala Guatemala 8 DEM 10 9/2/2009 2,508 GobiernoGuate http://twitter.com/GobiernoGu ate 46 New 53 President Alassane Ouattara Ivory Coast -77 -- 16 10/29/2009 1,588 adosolutions http://twitter.com/adosolutions 39 New