{"id":269,"date":"2018-05-02T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=269"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:16","slug":"modi-brushes-aside-trump-to-have-most-followers-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/modi-brushes-aside-trump-to-have-most-followers-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi is the most followed leader on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, is the most followed among world leaders on Facebook, it was found in a <strong>study<\/strong> conducted by a communication firm, Burson-Martsteller. Modi has beaten US President Donald Trump by a huge margin, who was second.<\/p>\n<p>Between January 1, 2017 and March 15, 2018, Modi had a total 43.2 million followers on Facebook, while Trump could not go beyond 23.1 million. Modi\u2019s \u201csilence\u201d and Trump\u2019s constant shooting from the hip is evident from their Facebook \u201cinteractions\u201d too \u2013 while Trump led with 204.9 million conversations, Modi lagged far behind with only 113.6 million interactions with his \u201cfollowers\u201d. Interestingly, in March this year, Twiplomacy, a digital platform found that 60% of Modi\u2019s followers are fake on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden was voted the \u201cmost loved\u201d world leader on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Modi is the most followed leader on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}