Lady GaGa First on Planet Earth to Reach 18 Million Followers on Twitter
Pop star Lady GaGa has become the first person ever to get 18 million followers on Micro-Blogging site Twitter. During the last year, she became the first person to reach 10 million followers on Twitter.
Lady GaGa is almost two million fans ahead of Canadian Pop star Justin Bieber, who is the second most-followed on Twitter just after GaGa. Justin Bieber has 16 million fans following him.
This week GaGa tweeted : "Can't believe I have 18,000,000 Twitter Monsters, really rad, was just a few years ago I had barely any."
Lady Gaga is recognized for her flamboyant, diverse and outré contributions to the music industry through fashion, performance and music videos. She has sold an estimated 23 million albums and 64 million singles worldwide,making herself one of the best-selling music artists of all time and her singles some of the best-selling worldwide. Her achievements include four Guinness World Records, five Grammy Awards and 13 MTV Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga is named as one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Let's go through the top 20 "Followed" personalities on Twitter.
( Statistics as on February 6 , 2012 ,5.00 pm IST)
| Rank | User | @Username | Followers | Following | Tweets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Lady Gaga | @ladygaga | 18,897,727 | 139,972 | 1,249 |
| #2 | Justin Bieber | @justinbieber | 17,142,934 | 121,039 | 13,050 |
| #3 | Katy Perry | @katyperry | 14,692,756 | 82 | 3,705 |
| #4 | Shakira | @shakira | 13,637,516 | 42 | 1,243 |
| #5 | Kim Kardashian | @KimKardashian | 13,003,376 | 168 | 10,293 |
| #6 | Rihanna | @rihanna | 12,960,686 | 724 | 4,222 |
| #7 | Britney Spears | @britneyspears | 12,898,035 | 417,782 | 1,399 |
| #8 | Barack Obama | @BarackObama | 12,351,193 | 682,747 | 2,746 |
| #9 | Taylor Swift | @taylorswift13 | 10,813,587 | 69 | 1,225 |
| #10 | Selena Gomez | @selenagomez | 10,132,097 | 699 | 1,990 |
| #11 | Ashton Kutcher | @aplusk | 9,397,715 | 685 | 7,362 |
| #12 | Ellen DeGeneres | @TheEllenShow | 9,242,173 | 47,721 | 5,478 |
| #13 | Oprah Winfrey | @Oprah | 9,095,443 | 40 | 1,851 |
| #14 | YouTube | @YouTube | 9,012,646 | 388 | 4,808 |
| #15 | Nicki Minaj | @NICKIMINAJ | 9,007,344 | 800 | 9,858 |
| #16 | Marshall Mathers | @Eminem | 8,828,786 | 0 | 176 |
| #17 | Kaka | @KAKA | 8,488,070 | 345 | 2,275 |
| #18 | Justin Timberlake | @jtimberlake | 8,287,376 | 21 | 655 |
| #19 | Twitter en español | @twitter_es | 8,052,869 | 31 | 558 |
| #20 | Chris Brown | @chrisbrown | 7,633,811 | 1,376 | 22 |
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