External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has been included in Foreign Policy magazine’s 2016 list of ‘15 Global Thinkers’ “for fashioning a novel brand of Twitter diplomacy”.
In a website posting, the magazine recalled how, when around 10,000 Indian workers in Saudi Arabia faced a "food crisis" earlier this year due to job losses, Swaraj tweeted about the issue to her 60 lakh followers on the social media website. The magazine said in a blog post on its website:
What followed was a weeks-long social media operation in which Swaraj posted information for migrants about rations provided by the Indian embassy, claims for unpaid wages, and government-organised transportation home.