Pope Francis retweeted more than any world leader

Pope Francis is streets ahead of any world leader on Twitter because he is so widely re-tweeted.

With 14m followers for the nine language versions of his @Pontifex account, the cyber-savvy pontiff has just a third of US president Barack Obama’s followers.

However, that is not the key measure, said Matthias Lüfkens, who oversees the annual Twiplomacy survey.