Swaraj’s Twitter diplomacy

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/12/2016

Foreign Policy magazine has named India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj one of the 15 top Global Thinkers of the year for her “novel brand of Twitter diplomacy”, reports  Deccan Chronicle. The list includes others like Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel and  UN secretary general Ban-ki-Moon. Swaraj’s diplomatic initiatives on social media are legion. “From evacuating Indians from Yemen to helping replace lost passports, Swaraj has earned the nickname “the common tweeple’s leader” for her aggressive use of Twitter,” the magazine said. A nice feather in the cap for Swaraj, who is now recovering from a kidney transplant.