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Twitter Famous Celebrities

By Tara Hari

Twitter has turned out to be a great platform for reaching out to the masses. Celebrities, who already have a huge fan base, have amassed even more followers through Twitter.

Twitter has helped these celebrities to rub shoulders with the common man, and in turn, it fulfills the dreams of many. All fans would want to know what is going on in their favourite celebrities' head and now, thanks to Twitter, they can do exactly just that. With the help of Twitter, all the fans can know about their favourite celebrities' day, hobbies or thoughts. What more could any fan want?

But Twitter famous celebrities have to be especially careful about the things they post, especially since their tweets could affect their fan following and popularity. It should come as no surprise that the top Twitter users are all famous celebrities. So now let us look at some of the famous celebrities on Twitter who have some of the largest fan base on Twitter.

Justin Beiber

Justin Beiber

Justin Beiber is supposed to have 42 million Twitter followers worldwide. This has helped him secure the position of most followed person on Twitter. But rumour has it that almost 30 percent of his Twitter followers are fake. Justin Bieber surpassed Lady Gaga in January 2013 and currently boasts 42.2 million followers on the platform.

Katy Perry

Katy Perry

Katy Perry has won in her ongoing race with the famous Twitter celebrity Lady Gaga, for the most followed female celebrity on Twitter. Katy Perry's current fan following adds up to approximately 39.8 million followers. She is also the world's second most famous Twitter celebrity.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga

Pop Singer Lady Gaga was the first person in Twitter history to amass a fan following of 20 million Twitter followers. She currently has a whopping 39.2 million followers on Twitter. Lady Gaga apparently gains on an average 40,000 Twitter followers per day. And contrary to the behaviour of most famous celebrities on Twitter, she follows a large number of people herself. The pop star has 150 followers for every account she follows.

Rihanna

Rihanna

Rihanna might have started out slow with her hit song Umbrella, but she has risen up to be the fourth most famous celebrity on Twitter.

Shakira

Shakira

After Justin Beiber, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna, latina pop singer Shakira is the one of the celebrities with the most twitter fan following. She attained world's fourth most popular Twitter celebrity, Shakira has a fan following of around 14 million in 2010, but has now dropped to sixth place.

These are some of the Twitter famous celebrities who have captured the hearts of millions of their fans with their tweets.

Story first published: Friday, August 9, 2013, 21:18 [IST]
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