The 10 Most Popular People on #Twitter

Katy Perry maintains her position as Twitter’s most-popular individual, and last month became the first user to reach 60 million followers on the platform.

Perry now has a growing lead of more than three million followers over second-placed (and former number one) Justin Bieber.

Last month Barack Obama became the third user (after Perry and Bieber) to pass 50 million followers.

Here’s the latest look at Twitter’s 10 most-popular users.

1. Katy Perry (@katyperry, 60,820,353 followers)
2. Justin Bieber (@justinbieber, 57,365,770)
3. Barack Obama (@barackobama, 50,580,865)
4. Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13, 47,711,286)
5. Lady Gaga (@ladygaga, 42,945,323)
6. Britney Spears (@britneyspears, 39,722,677)
7. Rihanna (@rihanna, 38,225,286)
8. Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake, 38,207,538)
9. Ellen Degeneres (@TheEllenShow, 35,380,934)
10. Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano, 31,623,290)

The 10 Biggest Social Networks Worldwide

Facebook is the world’s biggest social network, with 1.35 billion users as of December 2014.
But what about the rest of the top 10?
China’s Qzone is second, with its 629 million users almost double that of third-placed Google+.
LinkedIn (332 million), Instagram (300 million) and Twitter (284 million) are next, followed by Tumblr, Sina Weibo, Vkontakte and Snapchat.
Check out the chart below for the full top 10 social networks worldwide, which comes courtesy of Statista.