Philippines
Philippine President Benigno Aquino started his Twitter activity on 21 September 2009 when he announced his running mate for the 2010 presidential elections:
Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
- follows unilaterally (0)
- followed unilaterally by (3)
- follows mutually (0)
“I am honored to have Senator Mar Roxas as my Vice Presidential running mate for 2010. We look forward to your support. Tuloy ang laban!” The campaign team tweeted short updates from his campaign stops, but Benigno Aquino never really engaged with his followers apart from inviting “graphic designers and artists to submit a design for our official avatar”. Once elected, he thanked the Filipino people with a “thank you boss” in Tagalog, which is also his most re-tweeted tweet. The campaign account went silent and a new account @PresidentNoy was set up by his communications team to report about the activities of the president in English and in Tagalog. Since 21 June 2012 the @PresidentNoy account asks his 35,000 followers to “follow @noynoyaquino, the President's official Twitter account”, which now has close to one million followers.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 191 | |
| Following: | 35 | |
| Followers: | 942,596 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 08/27/2009 | |
| Language: | English | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 0.19 | |
| % Retweets: | 1% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0.03 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 0% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 92% | |
| Total of retweets: | 5,782 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
| @MARoxas (2), @Noynoy2010 (1), @itsmekrisaquino (1), @TIME (1), | ||
