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Appendix A: World Leader Rankings Research Note: World Leader Rankings on Twitter August 2011 A:2 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 14 Prime Minister Najib Razak Malaysia 6 DEM 6 9/21/2008 181,447 NajibRazak http://twitter.com/NajibRazak 73 15 15 Prime Minister Stephen Harper Canada 10 DEM 0 7/11/2007 161,683 pmharper http://twitter.com/pmharper 68 13 16 Gabinete SEC (Ministerio de la Presidencia) Spain 10 DEM 1 7/20/2009 148,981 desdelamoncloa http://twitter.com/desdelamo ncloa 68 11 17 Prime Minister Julia Gillard Australia 10 DEM 2 7/4/2010 120,885 JuliaGillard http://twitter.com/JuliaGillard 70 14 18 Prime Minister Essam Sharaf Egypt -3 AUT 13 4/19/2011 100,878 DrEssamSharaf http://twitter.com/DrEssamSh araf 69 New 19 President Elect Ollanta Humala Peru 9 DEM 7 6/2/2010 78,826 Ollanta_HumalaT http://twitter.com/Ollanta_Hu malaT 73 New 20 Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg Norway 10 DEM 2 2/13/2009 76,358 JensStoltenberg http://twitter.com/jensstolten berg 75 16 21 President Ricardo Martinelli Panama 9 DEM 5 2/10/2011 75,739 rmartinelli http://twitter.com/rmartinelli 79 New 22 Office of the President of the Republic of Korea (HE Cheong Wa Dae) South Korea 8 DEM 0 4/14/2010 62,263 BlueHouseKorea http://twitter.com/BluehouseK orea 63 17 23 President Laura Chinchilla Miranda Costa Rica 10 DEM 0 1/19/2009 56,015 Laura_Ch http://twitter.com/Laura_Ch 61 21 24 Prime Minister of Netherlands, maintained by the Government Information Service Netherlands 10 DEM 0 6/14/2010 50,443 minpres https://twitter.com/minpres 62 New 25 President of Ecuador Rafael Correa Ecuador 5 DEM 12 10/29/2010 49,820 MashiRafael http://twitter.com/MashiRafae l 78 New 26 President Jacob Zuma South Africa 9 DEM 9 5/9/2011 47,269 SAPresident http://twitter.com/SAPresiden t 64 New