She "snatched" the lead from Justin Bieber and became the first person in the world to have more than 50 million followers on Twitter - Barack Obama is third, Lady Gaga is fourth
American singer Katy Perry is the first person in the world to have managed to collect more than 50,000,000 …friends on her Twitter account.
Katy Perry (@KatyPerry) set an online record by taking the lead from her Canadian colleague Justin Bieber, who dethroned Lady Gaga - last June - by taking the title of the most popular person on this type of social networking site.
Twitter Counter, which provides data on social media usage, announced that the 29-year-old singer surpassed this symbolic number at 21:43 GMT, now reaching 50,025,735 in total members.
However, she has not yet made any comments about her record through her account.
In the remaining positions
As for second, third and fourth place? Next is Justin Bieber with more than 49,200,000 followers, US President Barack Obama is in third place with 41.2 million followers and Lady Gaga is in fourth place with 41,020,000 friends. The latter can boast that she holds the first record, as she became the person with 20 million followers on Twitter in March 2012.
Source: thetoc.gr
