First to Hit 20million Twitter Followers; Lady Gaga Reigns

Gaga at 2012 Grammy Awards

Lady Gaga has become the first person to attract 20 million-plus followers on Twitter, she made history on last Saturday.

Gaga cleared fellow pop icon Britney Spears in August of 2010 to become the most-followed person on Twitter.  Currently, Spears has 13.5 million Twitter followers.

While Spears occasionally posts personal tweets, we know her account is for the most part maintained by her management team. Gaga has claimed, publicly, to personally maintain her Twitter account and regularly uses it to interact with fans, share original pictures and make announcements. After passing Spears, Gaga then dubbed herself the “Queen of Twitter,” and has retained the title ever since.

The top 5 most-followed people on Twitter are all musicians; largely females.  Lady Gaga (about 20 million followers), Justin Bieber (about 18 million followers), Katy Perry (about 15.7 million followers), Shakira (about 14.5 million followers) and Rihanna (about 14.4 million followers) top the Twitter charts.

While Bieber tweets much more often than Gaga does, statistics from twittercounter.com suggest Gaga’s Twitter crown isn’t in any immediate danger of being overtaken by Bieber. Gaga’s daily Twitter growth rate is consistently higher than Bieber’s — keeping her lead safe. I guess Gaga’s “little monsters” are a notch ahead of Justin’s “Beliebers“.

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