Vietnam

The leaders of Vietnam are not personally on Twitter, however the president and the prime minister have automated Twitter feeds from their respective websites.

The Twitter feed for President Truong Tan Sang was set up on 23 April 2011. The account automatically tweets posts from his official website. The account tweets exclusively in Vietnamese apart from English tweets such as “I liked a @YouTube video…” automatically generated through the link from YouTube to his Twitter stream. His tweets have only ever been re-tweeted six times.

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Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)

Tweets:912
Following:266
Followers:172
Joined Twitter: 04/23/2011
Language: Vietnamese
Status: Active
Tweets/day: 4.4
% Retweets: 0%
Mentions/Tweet: 0.22
Replies/Tweet: 0%
% Tweets retweeted: 1%
Total of retweets: 6
Most mentioned
@YouTube (185), @nguyen_tandung (11), @nphutrong (1) ,
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First tweet

Translation: On 22/11: President Truong Tan Sang, Ambassador, Head of Delegation European Union Franz Jessen ... http://t.co/7BizG0Bg

The Vietnamese prime minister’s team wants to connect with other world leaders and they follow 27 other world leaders. The account is also the most prolific account of all world leaders with 57 tweets per day, automatically broadcasting updates from his website, his Facebook page and his YouTube channel. The Prime Minister’s tweets are mainly in Vietnamese with occasional English posts.

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Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)

Tweets:5,864
Following:1,509
Followers:1,129
Joined Twitter: 02/11/2011
Language: Vietnamese
Status: Active
Tweets/day: 57.38
% Retweets: 0%
Mentions/Tweet: 0.13
Replies/Tweet: 0%
% Tweets retweeted: 2%
Total of retweets: 74
Most mentioned
@YouTube (395), @nguyen_tandung (24), @trandaiquang (1).
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