YouTube continues to reign supreme as the top brand on Twitter, with its close-to 28 million followers enough for sixth place overall amongst all profiles on the micro-blogging social network, and more than seven million ahead of second-placed Instagram amongst brands.
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YouTube continues to reign supreme as the top brand on Twitter by total number of followers, placing well ahead of even Twitter themselves. In fact, Twitter isn’t even second – since we last updated, Instagram has leap-frogged above its social media rival into the second spot amongst all brands on Twitter.
Did you know that teenybopper music superstar (and worldwide global irritant) Justin Bieber has more followers on Twitter than the entire population of Canada?
Yep. Bieber’s more than 36 million Twitter fans means that essentially everybody from the Canadian’s homeland has signed up to be a willing participant in the Terminator-like unstoppable rampage of the pint-sized monstrosity, with a couple of million extra folks from around the globe thrown in on top.
Back in the day (circa. 2009) mass-following other users on Twitter was an established and relatively painless way to gain lots of followers yourself. Many folks were strong believers in reciprocal following, and would often follow back (literally) anybody who followed them.
Indeed, this practice was often automated. And once this pattern became well-known, lots of folks used to exploit it.
A couple of weeks ago Justin Bieber become the most followed (i.e., most popular) profile on the entire Twitter network, usurping long-term numero uno Lady Gaga.
Since then, Bieber hasn’t looked back, extending his lead over Gaga to a couple hundred thousand followers. Indeed, Gaga faces increasing pressure for the #2 spot on Twitter from Katy Perry – as we’ve seen time and again on Twitter, nobody is safe in the top spot, no matter how popular they seem at the time.
Last September we took a close look at the profiles on Twitter who followed the largest number of users. Lots of attention on the network is given to individuals and brands with the most followers, but what about t’other way around?
Back then, it was Yoko Ono who led the charge, having usurped President Barack Obama for the top spot. But a lot can change in eight months – so who rules the roost now?
Selena Gomez has became the tenth and latest Twitter user to reach 10 million followers, passing the total yesterday.
Gomez joins joins Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, President Barack Obama, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Shakira, Rihanna and Taylor Swift as the tenth human, eighth woman and sixth female musical artist to become a member of Twitter’s 10 million club.
R&B megastar Rihanna (@rihanna) has become the latest Twitter user to reach 10 million followers, passing the total on Saturday.
Rihanna joins Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, President Barack Obama, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears and Shakira as the eighth human, sixth woman and fifth female musical artist to become a member of Twitter’s 10 million club.
Britney Spears (@britneyspears) has become the latest Twitter user to reach 10 million followers, passing the total on Friday.
Spears joins Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, President Barack Obama, Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian as the sixth human, fourth woman and third female musical artist to become a member of Twitter’s 10 million club.
Back in March we looked at who amongst all of the profiles on Twitter followed the most amount of users, and (somewhat pleasingly) President Barack Obama was leading the way, some distance ahead of number two-placed Whole Foods Market.
Well, things can change pretty quickly on Twitter, and the President is no longer sitting on top of the most-following pile.
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