President Ruto Named Africa’s Most Influential Leader on Twitter in 2022
President Ruto has been ranked the most influential African leader on Twitter in 2022 and 13th globally, according to a new report from communications agency BCW Global.
The 2022 Twiplomacy World Leader Power Ranking shows Ruto, who has over 5.6 million followers on Twitter, climbed nine places to become Africa’s most influential leader on the social media platform this year.
Ruto, who assumed power in September 2022, was also named the third most influential newly elected leader on Twitter by the agency, which has been tracking the growth of Digital Diplomacy since 2012.
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni were ranked second and third most influential leaders on the continent. Their international ranks are positions 18th and 29th respectively.
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most influential world leader on Twitter ahead of United States President Joe Biden and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoan.
Former British prime minister Liz Truss is currently in first place among female world leaders followed Sanna Marin, the Prime Minister of Finland.
"Twiplomacy’s new ranking algorithm has been designed to identify what influence is on Twitter among a particular list of handles. Given a specified time interval and list of Twitter handles, the algorithm assigns a tailored weighting to variables including mentions, tweets, retweets, reach, impressions, follower changes, likes and follower count," the agency said in a press release.
"It then applied additional variables such as gender, age, length of time in office and others to further contextualise, compare and understand influence factors in the ranking. The top three bring together big personalities, geopolitical clout, and a strong domestic following – all factors that determine a world leader’s influence on the platform."
Other factors that determine a leader's success on the microblogging site include quick reaction times, authenticity and a sense of flair and humor.
BCW Global said the most powerful world leaders are those with large personalities who use Twitter as a direct channel of communication with their audiences and influencers.
Comments (11)
Just wishing we were the 1st in fighting corruption & in reviving economy!
We could care less about twitter!
Influential? Who does he influence? Sudi or Ferdinand Waititu?
Influencers are People who Talk! Talk!! Talk!!!! But have Nothing in Themselves TRUE to Offer. They're a Bunch of Hypocrites, Liars and Cons (who End up Dying horrible Deaths).
What are people smoking? .influential? This is comical
Who did they poll?! Kalenjins? This is nonsense. He has done practically absolutely nothing.
Don't be fooled folks.And I am sure Roto is not that stupid to buy into this meaningless accolade.Obviously to be called the "most influential" of anything would draw attention.The mention has some entertainment value,and that's how I shall treat it.
True influence will not be hard to notice.Just ask the mama mboga na baba wheelbarrow.
Siku ya Jumatatu, tarehe 12, mwezi huu, Kenya itaadhimisha miaka 59 tangu ipate uhuru.
Ningependa wote waliozaliwa baada ya Kenya kupata uhuru waitazame filamu hii ya kuwakumbuka wote waliopigania uhuru na hasa waliopoteza maisha yao kwa kufa kabla ya kuuona uhuru wa Kenya.
Nina swali moja kwa wote waliochaguliwa kuwahudumia raia wa Kenya: Kwa nini lugha ya Kiingereza ingali ikitumiwa kwenye uongozi wa Kenya? Kwa nini lugha ya Kiswahili haitumiwi kwenye bunge na pia kwenye mikutano yote hadharani?
https://youtu.be/K4sSGd2w_rk
Twitter is owned by the most racist bigot Musk from the old racist regime of south africa. It is currently on the death bed financially, and Musk is trying to find new subscribers in Africa to keep twitter afloat. Everything about Ruto is hot air, just like the dying twitter.
Wario, this is not about who owns twitter but rather it’s about WSR trending. Musk may not even be knowing WSR. In fact there’s no correlation between WSR populism in twitter and Musk or his bigotry,
Hahaha what an awful joke, 2022 same old nonsense like the 1970
Who knows or cares what the old museveni has to say.Nobody cares about South Africa surely this poll makes no sense .Twitter is no longer what it was and most of these polls were manipulated