Top 10 Rankings 2015

Research Note: World Leader Rankings on Twitter December 2015 14 A few new entrants but mostly static rate of adoption The adoption rate shows a negligible upward tick as compared to the 2014 report published by the Digital Policy Council. 2015 had 139 countries with leaders that tweet, representing 83% of all nations included in the study (compared to 136 countries and 82% of total in 2014). So again this year the growth is flat. A few interesting new entrants did emerge this year. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece (@tsipras_eu) who came into office on 26 January 2015 is a case in point. He created his twitter account on 15th Jan 2014 and grew his account to 250K fans within a year to be positioned at #39 in the global list. Another case in point is President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, who joined Twitter in late Dec 2014 and grew his account to 516K followers to grab the 29th spot, way ahead of his predecessor Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who was placed at #51 in the 2014 list. Similarly, newly elected Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau), who not only lead his party to victory in the 2015 federal election, moving the third-placed Liberals from 36 seats to 184 seats, the largest-ever numerical increase by a party in a Canadian election – but also caused a mild stir by grabbing the 20th rank in the global list as a first time entrant (up from #23 with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2014). In terms of the democracies tweeting or not tweeting, here are the stats:

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