TikTok, who are the 10 world leaders with the most followers? Giorgia Meloni is seventh

Bans and restrictions in more and more countries affect TikTokByteDance’s video sharing app. From the USA to Great Britain to New Zealand, the halts to the Chinese platform mainly concern civil servants, due to the risk of seeing sensitive data end up in the hands of Beijing

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But how much is TikTok used by world leaders? And what are those most followed on the platform? It should immediately be noted that only the heads of state or government of 58 countries have an official account on TikTok, as explained by the Swiss consultancy firm DigiTips

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And it should also be noted that as far as the EU is concerned, the European Commission and European Council have imposed bans to TikTok on the devices used by its staff due to cybersecurity concerns. Even the European Parliament, in early March, “strongly recommended” to its members to remove the app from their smartphones and other devices

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If you go to see in detail the ranking of the most followed leaders – March 2023 data reported by DigiTips -, we see that in first place is Nayib Bukele (in the picture5.5 million followers), the president of El Salvador

THE RANKING

Second he is the Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with 4.3 million followers (in the picture)

French President Macron is in third place. He continues to communicate with his 3.9 million followers on the platform, and the French government maintains an official account (@GouvernementFR)

Bongs Bongs Marcos (in the picture)the president of the Philippines, ranks fourth with 1.7 million followers. Fifth Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia and sixth Gullermo Lasso, of Ecuador

In seventh place the only womanthe Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with 1.1 million followers after only about a year on the platform. The leader of the Brothers of Italy made a lot of use of this channel especially for her electoral campaign, before the 2022 elections. And even now that she is in Palazzo Chigi, she continues to use TikTok

They close the ranking Nicolas Maduropresident of Venezuela (in the picture), Anwar IbrahimPrime Minister of Malaysia e Gabriel Boric Font, president of Chile

In the graphics, the Top 10 of the most followed world leaders on TikTok according to the elaboration of DigiTips

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