Top 50 Twitter Accounts
Twitter is one the second biggest social networking site out there (It’s actually a micro blogging system that allows users to enter text that is at most 140 characters long) and it boasts of a whooping 517 Million users + (As of June 1st 2012) with over 142 Million of them coming from the USA. Thanks to twitters 517 Million users, over 340 Million tweets are sent out each and every day. Today we’ll be looking at some the top twitter accounts/people with the most followers on twitter.
Top 50 Twitter Accounts/People With The Most Followers On Twitter
As you go through the list, you’ll see that it comprises mostly of celebrities (mostly singers) with one or two other careers e.g. comedians (Ellen DeGeneres), Politicians (Barack Obama) and even a couple of billionaires (Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey)
Number | Profile | Following | Followers |
| 1 | Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) | 137638 | 29484603 |
| 2 | Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) | 122940 | 27851442 |
| 3 | Katy Perry (@katyperry) | 111 | 26580518 |
| 4 | Rihanna (@rihanna) | 871 | 25673364 |
| 5 | Britney Spears (@britneyspears) | 413387 | 20395342 |
| 6 | Barack Obama (@BarackObama) | 672944 | 19784721 |
| 7 | Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) | 82 | 18608635 |
| 8 | Shakira (@shakira) | 67 | 18128429 |
| 9 | YouTube (@YouTube) | 428 | 16763646 |
| 10 | Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) | 175 | 16138285 |
| 11 | Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) | 1523 | 14444998 |
| 12 | Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) | 26 | 13831841 |
| 13 | Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) | 73 | 13814623 |
| 14 | Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) | 47118 | 13508037 |
| 15 | Twitter (@twitter) | 1212 | 13286126 |
| 16 | Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) | 50 | 13141619 |
| 17 | Kaka (@KAKA) | 409 | 12747694 |
| 18 | Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) | 748 | 12625100 |
| 19 | ashton kutcher (@aplusk) | 705 | 12341342 |
| 20 | Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) | 0 | 12302450 |
| 21 | Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) | 76 | 11900577 |
| 22 | Jennifer Lopez (@JLo) | 175 | 11411432 |
| 23 | Chris Brown (@chrisbrown) | 1711 | 11231310 |
| 24 | P!nk (@Pink) | 151 | 10704036 |
| 25 | Twitter en español (@twitter_es) | 32 | 10018889 |
| 26 | Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) | 2227 | 10015669 |
| 27 | Adele (@OfficialAdele) | 178 | 9404297 |
| 28 | Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys) | 302 | 9380083 |
| 29 | Instagram (@instagram) | 19 | 9261432 |
| 30 | demetria lovato (@ddlovato) | 240 | 9256894 |
| 31 | Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) | 1 | 8963384 |
| 32 | Drizzy (@Drake) | 532 | 8948724 |
| 33 | Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) | 127 | 8862784 |
| 34 | CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) | 72 | 8771767 |
| 35 | Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) | 4186 | 8752598 |
| 36 | iamdiddy (@iamdiddy) | 1504 | 8643281 |
| 37 | Kanye West (@kanyewest) | 1 | 8530333 |
| 38 | Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) | 35 | 8339011 |
| 39 | Coldplay (@coldplay) | 2441 | 8331337 |
| 40 | Bill Gates (@BillGates) | 134 | 8231044 |
| 41 | UberSocial (@UberSoc) | 2340 | 8201230 |
| 42 | TwitPic (@TwitPic) | 27458 | 8173069 |
| 43 | Charlie Sheen (@charliesheen) | 107 | 8030746 |
| 44 | Ashley Tisdale (@ashleytisdale) | 154 | 7957445 |
| 45 | Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) | 60 | 7903323 |
| 46 | Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest) | 561 | 7843047 |
| 47 | 50cent (@50cent) | 2 | 7664873 |
| 48 | Wiz Khalifa (@RealWizKhalifa) | 394 | 7576899 |
| 49 | KhloéKardashianOdom (@KhloeKardashian) | 250 | 7574392 |
| 50 | Kourtney Kardashian (@KourtneyKardash) | 62 | 7268178 |
So there you have it, the top 50 twitter accounts/people with the most followers on twitter. It’s however important to note that the above top twitter accounts are merely just estimates so they may be vary either upwards or downwards.
Feel free to let us know what you think of the top twitter accounts/people with the most followers on twitter, we’d be glad to hear from you.