Modi tweets ahead

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There are people and there are tweeple. While the verdict of the people comes every five years, tweeple judge in real time. Tweeple's influence on or their reflection of people's mood is yet to be clearly established, but the virtual group's importance is growing with the ruling party recently anointing Shashi Tharoor as its "tweeter-in-chief". As BJP's Narendra Modi steers ahead of him in the number of followers, Business Standard brings you the most popular personalities on Twitter: