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Appendix A: World Leader Rankings Research Note: World Leader Rankings on Twitter - December 2012 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 2012 RANKING NAME COUNTRY POLITY SCORE REGIME TYPE FRAGILITY TWEETING SINCE FOLLOWERS DEC 2012 HANDLE LINK KLOUT 2011 RANKING 17 President Ollanta Humala Peru 9 DEM 7 6/2/2010 451,028 Ollanta_HumalaT http://twitter.com/Oll anta_HumalaT 71 23 18 Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey Spain 10 DEM 1 7/27/2011 390,590 marianorajoy http://twitter.com/ma rianorajoy 78 18 19 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh India 9 DEM 13 1/22/2012 342,612 PMOIndia http://twitter.com/PM OIndia 80 20 Prime Minister Julia Gillard Australia 10 DEM 2 7/4/2010 319,882 JuliaGillard http://twitter.com/Juli aGillard 88 19 21 Prime Minister Stephen Harper Canada 10 DEM 0 7/11/2007 276,060 pmharper http://twitter.com/pm harper 89 17 22 President Ricardo Martinelli Panama 9 DEM 4 2/10/2011 275,762 rmartinelli http://twitter.com/rm artinelli 69 21 23 Prime Minister David Cameron United Kingdom 10 DEM 0 1/8/2010 189,192 David_Cameron http://twitter.com/Dav id_Cameron 79 3 24 President Jacob Zuma South Africa 9 DEM 8 5/9/2011 187,129 SAPresident http://twitter.com/SA President 67 28 25 Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg Norway 10 DEM 2 2/13/2009 185,908 JensStoltenberg http://twitter.com/jen sstoltenberg 83 24 26 President Laura Chinchilla Miranda Costa Rica 10 DEM 0 1/9/2009 153,503 Laura_Ch http://twitter.com/Lau ra_Ch 70 25 27 Prime Minister Mark Rutte Netherlands 10 DEM 0 6/14/2010 139,185 MinPres http://twitter.com/Mi nPres 79 26 28 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel 10 DEM 8 10/30/2008 128,297 netanyahu http://twitter.com/net anyahu 86 31 29 President Danilo Medina Dominican Republic 8 DEM 6 4/26/2009 119,690 DaniloMedina http://twitter.com/Da niloMedina 81 47 30 Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Thailand 7 DEM 7 5/20/2011 107,347 PouYingluck http://twitter.com/Po uYingluck 67 15 31 Office of the President South Korea 8 DEM 0 4/14/2010 101,613 BlueHouseKorea http://twitter.com/Blu ehouseKorea 66 22 32 President Moncef Marzouki Tunisia -88 __ 8 3/7/2011 99,725 Moncef_Marzouki http://twitter.com/Mo ncef_Marzouki 62 33 Prime Minister Raila Odinga Kenya 8 DEM 12 5/18/2011 96,995 odinga_raila http://twitter.com/odi nga_raila 80 62 34 President Paul Kagame Rwanda -4 AUT 17 5/4/2009 92,477 PaulKagame http://twitter.com/Pau lKagame 82 34