Pope Francis World’s Most Influential Leader on Twitter Beating U.S. President Obama, Other World Leaders [INFOGRAPHIC]

A Twiplomacy study has reported that Pope Francis is now the world's most influential leader on popular micro-blogging site Twitter. His Twitter account @Pontifex has the highest number of retweets with an average of 11,100 retweets in Spanish and 8,200 retweets in English.

Pope Francis has beaten U.S. President Barack Obama in retweets. President Obama has an average of 2,300 retweets in his official Twitter account @BarackObama. Despite being beaten by Pope Francis in average number of retweets, Mr Obama still has the most number of Twitter followers with 33.5 million. Pope Francis has 7.2 million followers spread across his Twitter accounts in nine different languages.

Twiplomacy's Matthias Lufken's told The Huffington Post that the study includes only the heads of states and government accounts of those countries that are members of the United Nations. The Dalai Lama is not included in Twiplomacy's top world leaders on Twitter, although he has a lot of followers.

Although the Vatican is not a member of the United Nations but considered as a non-member permanent observer, exceptions were made by the Twiplomacy study for the Vatican, Kosovo and Palestinian territories. If the study would have included the Dalai Lama, famous spiritual leader in Tibet, his Twitter account @DalaiLama would have beaten Pope Francis to gain the number 2 spot in the list of most followed Twitter accounts of world leaders. The Dalai Lama has 7.35 followers on his account.

The U.S. White House's Twitter account grabbed the third spot with more than 4 million followers, followed by the President of Turkey's 3,429,168 million followers in fourth place and the prime minister of Turkey is in fifth place with 3.409,433 followers.

The most active world leader with an average of 41.9 tweets per day is the presidency of Venezuela. The most controversial world leader with 96 per cent of Twitter replies is the prime minister of Uganda who owns the account @AmamaMbabazi.