India’s newly reelected prime minister has really milked the platform over the years. He follows some 2,000-odd everyday citizens who amplify his reach by replying to, liking, retweeting, and sharing his posts.

Since joining the platform on Jan. 10, 2019, Modi has been slowly amassing followers. As of publication, he had just over 53 million.

His tweets get an average of 1,584 retweets and 8,019 likes, according to social media statistics trackers Social Blade.

If he does not quit the platform, he’s on track to add 23 million more people to his audience over the next five years.

Facebook

Narendra Modi’s Facebook presence is notable, too. His verified page is the 79th most-liked and 62nd most talked-about, according to Social Blade.

Modi’s supporters also use the platform to rally behind the leader. Ahead of last year’s elections, the BJP, Modi and their fan pages spent a whopping Rs7.8 crore ($1.08 million) on 18,454 Facebook advertisements posted between February 21, 2019 and April 27, 2019.

Its digital campaigns were far-reaching and, it seems, effective. According to searches Quartz ran on Facebook’s ad library, his name turned up the far more frequently in fan pages compared to other Indian politicians in April last year.

Instagram

Modi’s Instagram following was for a while far less impressive, which makes since since he joined the platform in November 2014, well after he joined Twitter and Facebook.

Over time, though, his presence has grown. By now, he has acquired more than 35 million followers. Though this is fewer than cricketer Virat Kohli and actor Priyanka Chopra—the most followed Indians on Instagram with over 50 million followers each—he is the most followed politician on the platform.

YouTube

Since it began in October 2007, Modi’s YouTube channel has garnered a total of 4.5 million subscribers. He has clocked upwards of 536 million total views on more than 12,000 uploads.

Between January 2019 and February 2020, the channel has added between 50,000 and 350,000 subscribers each month. During the same time, monthly views have also been climbing. Both have seen peaks around election season in May and on Independence Day in August.

Modi’s presence on Youtube extends beyond his own account onto BJP’s channel with 2.6 million subscribers, the account for prime minister office (PMO India) with 718,000 subscribers, as well as the Yoga With Modi channel that has just over 14,300 subscribers.

His most popular video on his own channel is “PM Modi in conversation with Akshay Kumar,” which has been viewed more than 16.6 million times. Viewers criticized it as “paid promotion”, a publicity stunt intended to show many Modi in a positive light. Modi nor his party ever responded to the critique; the video is still up.

Love him or hate him, if you’re on social media, you can’t ignore Modi.

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