Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the third most followed world leader on the micro-blogging site Twitter while External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is the most followed foreign minister, according to a latest study.
Twiplomacy Study 2015, accessed by IANS, showed that Sushma Swaraj is the most followed foreign minister with 2,438,228 followers. She is far ahead of UAE' Abdullah Bin Zayed (1,608,831) and Turkey's Mevlut Cavusoglu (376,429).
The study, which counted data till March 24, is an annual global survey of world leaders on Twitter. It is aimed at identifying the extent to which world leaders use the site and how they connect on the social network.
The study revealed that three most followed world leaders were US President @BarackObama with 56,933,515 followers, Pope Francis (@Pontifex) with 19,580,910 followers on his nine different language accounts, and Modi with 10,902,510 followers.
Since his election in May 2014, Modi's account has moved into the top three most followed Twitter accounts of world leaders, said Twiplomacy's Matthias Luefkens. He told IANS that Modi was also among the most effective in terms of re-tweets per tweet.
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Allu Arjun's "S/o (Son of) Satyamurthy" has continued to keep the cash register ringing at the worldwide box office in the third week. The film has grossed ₹77 crore in 18 days.
Having opened to positive response, "S/o Satyamurthy" collected ₹38 crore net (₹57.70 crore gross) at the worldwide box office in the eight-day-extended first week. In its second week, the movie witnessed over 70% and raked in ₹6.75 net, taking its 15-day total collection to ₹44.75 crore net (₹72.45 crore gross).
In its third week, "S/o Satyamurthy" lost a huge chunk of screen-count to new releases "Dohchay", "Kai Raja Kai", "Aloukika" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron". Besides, the film became second option with the new movies turning first choice for many film-goers. Despite facing tough competition, the film has done a decent business in the cinema halls across the globe.
Dhanush bagged the Best Actor Award for the film. VIP music director Anirudh bagged Best Music Director 2014 and Best Song of the Year Awards. Amala Paul won Best Actress for VIP and the movie also bagged the Best Film Award. And of course, the Favourite Song Award went to the song Amma Amma in VIP.
VIP was the biggest hit of 2014 and though other films also did well, it was VIP that seemed to be popular among the masses. The songs were also a big hit – Amma Amma, Po Indru Neeyage, VIP title song and What A Karvaad are still being played on the radio across channels.
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