Twiplomacy recently came up with an excellent annual study of how heads of state and governments use Twitter. The study was done on 793 Twitter accounts based on data available until May 1, 2016.

Below is an exploratory interface we at Gramener built for a selection of fields from the same data. Each bubble is a twitter handle arranged by 'Continent' by default. Clicking on a bubble shows the connections for that particular handle. You can also rearrange the bubbles based on the number of Tweets, Followers, handles followed & the date of joining Twitter. Explore and have fun!

Data Courtesy: Twiplomacy

Continent Tweets Following Followers Joined
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Europe Oceania Africa Asia North America South America 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Each bubble is the handle of a world leader or government / institution, the color signifying the continent. Click on a bubble to see how a world leader is connected to other leaders. They follow me I follow them We follow each other The leaders are arranged by the total number of tweets tweeted from their handle. @presidenciaMX is the top tweeter with 84,603 tweets. Now the leaders are arranged by the number of twitter handles they follow. @BarackObama follows 636,399 handles - the most. @BarackObama also has the most number of followers. PM of India, @narendramodi is 2nd in the list. @BarackObama, @EPN - the President of Mexico & @japan - the handle of the government of Japan were some of the first government based handles to join Twitter in March 2007.