In the modern digital world, social media reach is power. The people with the most followers on Twitter, for example, have a massive platform to spread their messages, while those with large, engaged followings on Instagram are an advertiser's dream sponsor partner. Social media can also be an equalizer of power. It's true that many celebrities boast large followings across platforms, but social media has also enabled previously unknown personalities to turn YouTube or TikTok fame into veritable star power and influence. Who has the biggest reach across the entire social media universe? Instead of looking at who has the most followers on Instagram, Twitter, or other networks, we ranked the most-followed personalities across all major platforms combined. Who Has the Most Overall Followers on Social Media? We parsed through hundreds of the most-followed accounts on multiple platforms to narrow down the top influencers across social media as of April 2021. Sources include trackers of the most followers on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok, verified directly on site and with social media tracker Socialblade.
But countries could use the document to refuse to admit migrants, visitors or even business travelers who lack vaccination cards. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is a highly contagious virus spread in feces; although only one case in 200 causes symptoms, the hardest-hit victims can be paralyzed or killed. With so many silent carriers, even one confirmed case is considered a serious outbreak. There is no cure. Unlike influenza or other winter viruses, polio thrives in hot weather. Cases start rising in the summer and often explode when the monsoon rains break the summer heat, flooding sewage-choked gutters and bathing the feet of romping children with virus, which they pick up by touching their feet or a ball and then putting a finger in a mouth. Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times Though the disease primarily strikes children, evidence has mounted that it also crosses borders in adult carriers, such as traders, smugglers and migrant workers. With 54 of this year's 68 new infections, Pakistan is by far the riskiest country, Dr. Aylward said.
It also entails many conflicts. Even when there is no local opposition, there are struggles over issues including who gets the vaccinator jobs, which usually pay $2 to $5 a day, and who controls the gas money for minibuses taking teams to villages.
Boeing's 737 Next Generation airliners have been struck by a peculiar software flaw that blanks the airliners' cockpit screens if pilots dare attempt a westwards landing at specific airports. Amid the various well-reported woes facing America's largest airframe maker, yet another one has emerged from the US Federal Aviation Administration; a bug that causes all pilots' display screens in the 737-NG airliner family to simply go blank. That bug kicks in when airliner crews try to program the autopilot to follow what the FAA described as "a selected instrument approach to a specific runway". Seven runways, of which five are in the US, and two in South America - in Colombia and Guyana respectively – trigger the bug. Instrument approach procedures guide pilots to safe landings in all weather conditions regardless of visibility. "All six display units (DUs) blanked with a selected instrument approach to a runway with a 270-degree true heading, and all six DUs stayed blank until a different runway was selected, " noted the FAA's airworthiness directive, summarising three incidents that occurred on scheduled 737 flights to Barrow, Alaska, in 2019.
Boeing has not responded to The Reg 's request for comment. 176 die in crash of Ukraine Airlines' 737-800 Adding to Boeing's unfortunate media coverage today is the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines 737-800 in Iran early this morning. The airliner had taken off from Imam Khomeini airport near the capital of Tehran before coming down minutes after takeoff, reportedly killing all 176 people aboard. BBC Iran correspondent Ali Hashem obtained footage of a burning object in the sky crashing in a fireball. Although Iranian authorities were quick to issue a statement blaming the crash on an engine fire, a photo reportedly issued by a state-run Iranian news agency shows what appears to be shrapnel damage to pieces of wreckage. Semi-official news agency Mehr News reported that the head of Iran's civil aviation authority, Ali Abedzadeh, said it was not clear to which country Iran would send the downed airliner's black boxes for analysis. International custom is for the manufacturer to analyse these boxes; in this case, US-based Boeing.