The US singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first person to reach 100m followers on Twitter.<\/p>\n
The website posted a video compilation of her tweets since she joined in 2009 along with a message saying “Today, we #WITNESS history”.<\/p>\n
Witness is the name of Perry’s new album.<\/p>\n
The Canadian singer Justin Bieber has the second highest number of followers at 96.7m with Barack Obama in third place with almost 91m.<\/p>\n
The rest of the top 100 accounts are mostly made up of singers, sports stars, media companies and a few politicians, according to the website Twitter Counter.<\/p>\n
US president Donald Trump is the most-followed current leader, in 33rd place with 32.4m followers. Two places behind him – after the boy band One Direction – is Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with 30.7m followers.<\/p>\n
Top five most-followed Twitter accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n Four are pop stars, one is a former US president.<\/p>\n @katyperry<\/strong> 100m followers<\/p>\n @justinbieber<\/strong> 96.7m followers<\/p>\n @BarackObama<\/strong> 90.8m followers<\/p>\n @taylorswift13<\/strong> 85.1m followers<\/p>\n @rihanna<\/strong> 74.1m followers<\/p>\n However it is not clear how many of these accounts’ followers are real people and how many may be fake accounts.<\/p>\n Searches using the tool Twitter Audit – which analyses a sample of followers and calculates a score based on factors including the number of tweets they have sent – suggested that about two-thirds of both Perry’s and Bieber’s followers may not be real.<\/p>\n For Mr Obama and Mr Trump the figure dropped to about a third.<\/p>\n In January researchers in the UK discovered massive collections of dormant fake Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n Some had been used to fake follower numbers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics, the researchers found.<\/p>\n Twitter says users are banned from writing programs that automatically followed or unfollowed accounts or which “favourited” tweets in bulk.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first person to reach 100m followers on Twitter. The website posted a video compilation of her tweets since she joined in 2009 along with a message saying “Today, we #WITNESS history”. Witness is the name of Perry’s new album. The Canadian singer Justin Bieber has the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[3,8259,1030],"class_list":["post-329069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-ghana-news","tag-katty-perry","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}