Most influential leader: 27 million follow Mohammed Bin Rashid on social media

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, continued to consolidate his position as one of the most followed and influential leaders in the world after the number of followers on his official accounts on various social media sites exceeded 27 million.

Over 11.247 million people follow Sheikh Mohammed on X platform, while some 8.8 million people follow him on Instagram and four million people on Facebook. He is also followed by three million on LinkedIn and over 609,000 on YouTube.

Ever since Sheikh Mohammed started using the microblogging sites X and Facebook in 2009, his accounts have enjoyed remarkable success and great demand as a place for discussion with Emiratis and expatriates as well as Arabs and foreigners wishing to visit the country.

Sheikh Mohammed’s accounts became a cynosure of people due to the fact that they were rich of various topics and issues including national achievements and development initiatives directly related to Emiratis and expatriates, not to mention the regional and international charitable and humanitarian initiatives that he launched.

In recognition of this remarkable success, an article was published on X’s official blog in February 2016 praising Sheikh Mohammed’s use of its platform to announce the largest structural change of its kind in the federal government by publishing a series of tweets that generated a great deal of interaction and were described by the blog as unprecedented.

Through his various accounts, Sheikh Mohammed’s words and forward thinking attracted millions of followers from around the world, given the importance and diversity of the topics he shared that kept pace with global events.

On many occasions, he expressed his opinion, commented on regional and global issues and launched humanitarian initiatives including healthcare, combating illiteracy and poverty and spreading culture and education in several countries worldwide.

Sheikh Mohammed was keen to launch many major government initiatives through his social media accounts, asking followers inside and outside the country to interact and submit their suggestions and best solutions regarding many issues of interest to the public.

Every year, Sheikh Mohammed’s tweets top the list of the most interacted with in the UAE, as he shares his vision and experiences with the world under the hashtag #LifeTaughtMe, which social media users are keen to interact with by liking and retweeting.

He also regularly underscores the need to benefit from the tremendous development in the field of communication technology. “Technology has opened a wide field for communicating with people and must be used for the benefit of our Arab societies.”