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(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Amman) – Her Majesty Queen Rania came in third, following Barak Obama and 10 Downing Street in the list of most influential world leaders on the social network Twitter. The list was compiled as part of a report by the Digital Policy Council, according to which, 1 out of 5 heads of state are currently on Twitter and engaging in social networking on the internet.

In the five years since its launch, Twitter has become a social networking phenomenon. More than 140 million tweets are published a day, drawing in celebrities, politicians and royalty.

Today, Twitter’s 140-character updates are used for everything from sharing the latest celebrity gossip, to sparking social revolutions.

In addition to her efforts on behalf of education, human rights and women's issues, Jordan's monarch focused this year on bridging gaps between the U.S. and the Middle East. In August she announced via Twitvid, a Twitter video application, the winners of a tourism contest she sponsored, which will bring an American to Jordan and send a Jordanian to the U.S. on all-expense-paid trips. She's a queen of social media, too, with more than 1.3 million followers on Twitter and more than 300,000 fans on Facebook; she also maintains her own website and YouTube channel.

London - Jordan's Queen Rania joined international soccer stars to launch a campaign for education on Thursday, hoping to use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to get more children into school.

Speaking at London's Wembley Stadium, Queen Rania said she hoped to attract signatures to an online petition calling for schooling for the 75 million children who today have none.

"I have already started on my Twitter site," Queen Rania, who has more than 600 000 followers on the popular micro-blogging site, told Reuters in an interview.

After I tweeted, not long before I was to go on stage, I heard my name being called. I walked out and there in front of me were about 2,500 people and just as many laptops. Even though the venue previously functioned as a city morgue, the room was bustling, the atmosphere electrifying.